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By Allan Fox | Healthy Lifestyle | Comments are Closed | 25 September, 2016 | 0

Marginal gains

I love Dave Brailsford, now Sir DB’s, idea of marginal gains.
With British Cycling he took every aspect of cycling from biomechanics to diet to helmets and broke them down to their component parts.

He then worked on each to develop a marginal improvement. It might only be a fraction of a percent in improvement of times achieved.

But when all of these marginal gains were amalgamated the whole was improved to a remarkable degree.

The result of this is seen in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medal haul for cycling.

Marginal gains can be made in all walks of life. I would love some ideas of marginal gains that could be achieved in medicine and patient care.

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Allan Fox

Dr Allan Fox MB BS BSc MRCGP FRCP became a GP in 1994, when he joined Wye Surgery and has continued to pursue his interest in Cardiology, managing referrals from both his own practice and other practices. In 2004 he became a GP Trainer and latterly a GP Programme Director, responsible for the training of local GP's. He recently stood down from this role but remains a GP Appraiser. He was also made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004, an honour awarded by his peers for an outstanding contribution to medicine and training of hospital doctors.

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