Humanising Healthcare: patterns of hope for a system under strain

This film records the talk given by author Dr Margaret Hannah at the launch of her book Humanising Healthcare: patterns of hope for a system under strain at the Health Foundation in London. In the talk, she sets out the case that current thinking about health policy and innovation is the product of a modernist mindset that is trapped by a certain set of assumptions. This way of thinking drives us to think we need more money to sustain healthcare systems yet doing so starves us of the possibility of investing in infrastructure to create health. Introducing Three Horizons from IFF, she shows how the presence of a third horizon opens up new ways of thinking and innovating. She presents some important lessons she has learned from the Nuka Model of Health created by Southcentral Foundation in Alaska (an example of the third horizon in the present) before revealing how a shift in mindset can generate a very different system and practice of healthcare which is of better quality and financially sustainable for the long term.