Wednesday 3 April 2019

Is ‘Total football’ the best model for running health and social care in the NHS?

Is ‘Total football’ the best model for running health and social care in the NHS? Total football is a style of play in which positions are fluid and the collective comes above the individual. Developed in the 1970s, its influence can be traced from the Netherlands to Barcelona to Manchester City, whose manager, Pep Guardiola, is a devotee of Johan Cruyff, the style’s most celebrated practitioner.

Less well known is that it is also, according to Jon Rouse, the chief officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the model for the city’s new healthcare system. Just as players are given freedom to work things out on the pitch, so too are health and local authority leaders in the conference room. iNews

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