TY - JOUR T1 - What matters most? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 208 LP - 208 DO - 10.7861/fhj.ed.9.3.1 VL - 9 IS - 3 A2 - Fox, Kevin Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/3/208.abstract N2 - The theme for the commissioned papers within this edition is ‘Value and values’. It is essential that we step back to address these very fundamental principles about what we want for ourselves and our patients as we plan future healthcare. I am very grateful to our board members, Louella Vaughan and Suzie Bailey, for guest editing this edition and collating remarkably diverse, stimulating and challenging papers.The demands for more support for our health service are growing louder and more frantic, matching the increasing despair of many healthcare professionals. I do worry that the conversation has been too narrow. Understandably there is a call for more staff and more resources. What if this is unattainable and we are simply not going to be able to deliver significant increases in healthcare staffing in the next 5 years? I do not sense a ‘Plan B’. This is where stepping back and reflecting on what matters to us and to patients, to consider what we really need to be providing in our health … ER -