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Everything here, listed by the question it answers. If the subject is new, read the foundations first. If you already have a programme that is not working, start with measurement.

What are you trying to work out?

All 50 notes, listed by the question they answer rather than by title. Each appears once.

Three specific components, not a synonym for tiredness. Plus the frame used throughout — six areas of mismatch between the job and the person — and the boundary between an employer's role and a clinician's.

Seven conditions, each of them designed rather than inherited. Demand with control is demanding; demand without control is the combination associated with the worst outcomes.

Most of the useful indicators are already in systems you own. The largest failure in this field is not measuring badly — it is measuring and then doing nothing visible.

The interventions with the largest effects, and the ones most often skipped because they are slower, more expensive and more political than buying a subscription.

Twelve things within an ordinary manager's gift, none requiring budget or permission — plus the things they are wrongly held accountable for, and why middle management frequently shows the worst measures.

Entitlement is rarely the constraint. Coverage, culture and whether senior people use a benefit determine whether anyone else can.

Conditions that are set collectively rather than by any one manager, including the two that do the most damage: uncertainty handled badly and load that concentrates on the same people.

Where to start from nothing, why much of this is an obligation rather than a benefit, the boundary between the organisation's responsibility and a person's life, and the terms defined once.