Shaun
Nice to know that you are still out there on the list!
I am not sure if you have got the last 3 emails I have sent you, but your
invoice for £275 for a place at the complexity conference last September
still hasn't been
paid. I would be grateful if you could send a cheque by return made payable
to
St Thomas Medical Group Research Unit Conference Account.
Many thanks
Debbie Reinhold
----- Original Message -----
From: Shaun Naidoo <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Risk and complex systems
> Hi,
> I haven't been contributing to the dialogue as yet but I am following it
> with interest. I am a research fellow in the health service and also work
> with my partner Shaun (who has contributed) developing creativity within a
> complexity framework. My work is primarily with healthcare teams as part
of
> the modernisation agenda. I am just in the final weeks of writing up my
> thesis for a doctorate in education which is also about creativity and
> complexity. For this I have used the metaphor of a trampoline (I know like
> most metaphors it has its limits!). For me this embraces both the
> connectivity and the tension but also the potential of it's creative
energy.
> I am looking forward to both meetings especially the opportunity to share
my
> experience of research and complexity.
> Marian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Risk and complex systems
>
>
> > >All the more reason to pencil the research methods Tufton on 28th
> > January into your diary now while I finalise the programme
> >
> > I hadn't picked up on this- there is a meeting on 16th isn't there?
> >
> >
> > >So the swiss cheese is joined up. (Wanted new metaphor - preferably
> > alive) Is this new? I can't recall now whether I came to this
> > conclusion myself or whether I read it somewhere first, but it is
> > important and not widely enough stated.
> >
> > I think quite a few folks are dropping the Swiss cheese model. A web
> > under tension (i.e. it transmits movement and vibration) is often used
> > in complex systems and I think something on those lines might be better
> > for this kind of model, but...
> > "All models are useful, but all models are wrong" Kurt Lewin Field
> > Theory in Social Science; Selected Theoretical Papers Greenwood Press
> > 1975
> >
> > >Are there medical incident databases that one can analyse?
> >
> > Yes, the defence organisations have them. Soon there will be the NPSA
> > reporting database, that would be better (still highly selected cases
> > but less so than defence databases). They would probably like some
> > analysis to develop the model of what happens when harm occurs.
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
>
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