Richard Sutcliffe

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5 essays · since 2026

2026

  1. Your Baseline Was Contaminated Before the Project Began

    There is a ritual at the start of almost every public sector programme. The business case is written. Then the user researchers arrive. By then it is too late.

  2. Three Attempts Failed Before We Stopped Asking the Wrong Question

    For over a decade, three separate programmes tried and failed to replace the NHS pathology coding standard. The technology was not the problem. Nobody had spoken to the lab technicians.