For 20 years now, at roughly this point in the calendar, I have written some version of the same damned article.
As a healthcare journalist, you cannot avoid it. This is the month the NHS Confed Expo happens, and my profession is duty-bound to produce an opinion on the gathering of the tribes, the exhibition of the hopeful, and the tournament of ideas in which the winners ride off to NHS glory.
It triggers the usual frenzy of top-ten takeaways, trend pieces and templates for the future. I have contributed to that racket often enough myself, and to such an extent that I now occasionally wonder whether the AIs trawling the web for conference wisdom have already pinched my numbers three and five.
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