Thread by @profchrisham

There are many lessons - positive and negative - on the response to the pandemic and we need to learn them now to be more effective in future
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Let's start with three positives: partnership working at a local level through local resilience forums and integrated care systems enabled public services to use resources more effectively with focus on place and community @NHS_RobW

The voluntary and community sector made a huge contribution in meeting needs working alongside public services and providing distinctive capabilities and support @GrapevineCEO @Voa1234

Clinical teams within the NHS were instrumental in shaping how services were delivered to patients with support of managers and informed by research into alternative treatments @mancunianmedic

The negatives included over centralisation, under use of the devolved administrations and regional and local government, and preference for private sector expertise when public sector could have stepped in @ProfDonnaHall @adamjlent @CWilkinsOldham

Decisions in government were taken by a small number of senior ministers and there was a chronic failure on to learn from mistakes as understanding of the pandemic accumulated @GregClarkMP

The expertise of leaders in public health, care homes, social care and schools could and should have been used to inform the government's decision making @Jeanelleuk @DavidBehan15 @tomriordan

looking ahead, there should be much more emphasis on collective and distributed leadership by the many not the few and recognition of the role of teams as argued by @AmyCEdmondson

we live in the century of the system according to @Atul_Gawande and complex challenges must be addressed by partnership working at all levels of government using all assets

people and communities must be active agents of change drawing on the insights of @HilaryCottam and making full use of the VCS as advocated by @alexsharedlives and others

the community paradigm outlined by @wearenewlocal @jesstud is a good way of framing how to do this drawing on the work of Wigan and others @ProfDonnaHall @KateAlvanley

a constitutional reset is needed to clarify the roles and accountabilities of central, regional and local government using the delayed devolution white paper @ianhudspeth @CllrSeccombe

above all, we need leaders able to work in this way and invest in their ability to work in a world of mesh governance as described by @geoffmulgan @colinrtalbot

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