Tom's 5-Minute Friday Podcast

Do we want choice in our public services, or do we feel like captives without the ability to vote with our feet?   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

...a horrific, yet entirely predictable and logical result of trying to deliver healthcare by the numbers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

I like to make things out of pallets, and I'm running a free event on improving public services; see you there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

...but how do we create cultures of innovation in the absence of competitive forces?  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

Our world needs more women in positions of influence, but not women who want to mimic the men who went before. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

It may not be comfortable to acknowledge, but the West has questions to answer about Ukraine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

...if you ever doubted the value, of positive, constructive conflict, then I hope after this week you won't anymore. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

I think it actually translates into a post-honesty era, and we all have a role to play in shaping it... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

That's right, absolutely nothing...say it again! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

If improvement begins with understanding, then we need to make the issue visible. Here is my suggestion for how... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

This week we received a letter from a public service in which they referred to "his" death in relation to my sister Alison; reassuring?! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscr...

I am hosting a free online event this Wednesday 26th January at 7pm GMT - come along and share your thoughts...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

I've been podcasting for a year and never really explained who I am, what I am trying to do, and what drives me to do it...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

...I've been watching the documentaries on Hillsborough and Four Lives on ITV - and nothing surprised me; what a strange place to inhabit!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/sub...

We buried my sister Alison 30yrs ago today... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

The tragic and horrific deaths of two children in the pres this week are further evidence that targets, box-ticking, and regulation, are harming public services. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at th...

This Monday the 13th of December it will be 30yrs since my sister Alison took her life following a period of abuse in an NHS mental health hospital. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substac...

...and a man chasing a terrorist with a Narwahl tusk on London Bridge; real-life really is stranger than fiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

What really are the unacknowledged challenges facing public services? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

What if Gavrilo Princip had been able to have an open candid conversation with Archduke Franz Ferdinand? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

Staff at the Attorney Generals Office are due to meet shortly and decide if we can have a fresh inquest into Alison's death. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

The real story of the state of politics and democracy in the UK is the number of people who are disengaged...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

Patient feels passive, customer equates to choice, what's the right word for users of NHS services... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

Can we make room for robust conversations in the public sector? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe

Will it mean something, or will it become an excuse for all those without values to shout loudly? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message Get full access to ThatTom. Com - That Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to ThatTom. Com - Tom Bell’s Substack at thattom.substack.com/subscribe