The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Devi Sridhar is The Reformer in method as much as message. She reframes individual health outcomes as failures of systemic design, then moves with discipline from diagnosis, the NHS as a disease service, to structural remedy, whether lay therapists, active travel infrastructure, or publicly owned water.
“We will never treat our way out of this crisis with the NHS, an aging population, chronic disease, more and more people living longer but dependent on social care. The only way is to rethink it.”
On NHS structural reformundated
“It's not because individually you're doing anything about it. It's actually how they're constructed. So this is about big government and governments looking at this wrong.”
On Blue Zone policy lessonsundated
“You say it's too hard, why can they do it? You say it's too difficult, why are they doing it? I think that's what I've been trying to do with government — international examples.”
Challenging ministers with global evidenceundated
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Want to live to 100? Here’s how - Devi Sridhar”
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