Taking time to think can move you to tears
For innovation, it could be the most productive thing you do today
On a hot sunny day in July, I joined a panel to record the BBC Radio 4 show, The Fix. A series bringing together ‘12 of the country’s brightest young minds’ to solve difficult social problems, it tackles a different topic each episode from obesity to loneliness in ageing.
Our episode looks at the very tricky problem of the low morale and burnout amongst Junior Doctors that’s causing more and more of them to leave the profession, despite being the backbone of our NHS and emergency services. We gathered in St Thomas Hospital in London to rethink how the system might prevent this and imagine an innovative solution. We had just one day to come up with a radical fix that would convince a panel of judges — including the hospital’s medical director.
Now in its second series, The Fix is gaining attention for the fresh perspective it brings to entrenched problems. By bringing together multidisciplinary teams from diverse industries with experts in the subject area, it creates a different way of thinking that generates different ideas.
“Government doesn’t have a monopoly on ideas. The Fix opens up policy to a new perspective”
