Free Resources

Use of these resources - you are welcome to use the resources given here on the basis that you credit them to the Really Learning website (and the SDO website for the SDO publications). If you email us your contact details we will alert you when new resources are available.

Practical thinking papers

• Working in health care could be one of the most satisfying jobs in the world - why doesn’t it feel like that? - Paper from the Take it to the Limit Learning Set
• Making Strategy Work
• Beyond Partnership
• A Short and Partial History of Reform of the NHS in England
• Trust and trustworthiness

Books

• Really Managing Health Care
• Organisational Change
• Developing Change Management Skills

Teaching Vignettes

Developed for teaching and discussion purposes these vignettes each present a management conundrum. The conundrum is addressed in a separate discussion note.

Background Papers

• Systems Thinking
• Organisational Learning

Not for the fainthearted! These briefing papers were developed at a time when both terms were coming into vogue in the NHS and being misunderstood and misused. They aim to give the history of each school of thinking.