A dream about value, the NHS, and end of life care

Dreams have content but no meaning, much like life. We have responded by creating myriad religions, and millions of theologians have spent lifetimes squeezing meaning from those religions. I can do the same with a recent dream I had.My dream seemed to happen within a royal college, which is not surprising as because I’m the chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, an alliance of royal colleges and others, I spend much time thinking about colleges.In this composite college I met Gordon Brown, the former UK prime minister. With a wide grin, he slapped me on the back and said “I call you Britain’s chief value officer.”“We do,” I responded, “need less attention to cost and more to value.”I was a student in Edinburgh at the same time as Brown and knew him slightly. I bumped into him over the years and met him last year at COP26…
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