Energy-giving vs Energy-depleting Nishma Manek Your inspiration and motivation are clearly off the scale and contagious! How do you cultivate these? Thank you! I’ve not really thought about it before, but I suppose it comes from 2 choices. I think most things we choose to do fall on a […]
Disruptive Leadership Stella Vig Stella Vig Healthcare Leadership needs to change. At all levels. And now. The NHS cannot continue to teach and encourage leadership along traditional models. The current leadership model embeds nine leadership dimensions based upon current NHS principles. Currently Managers and Leaders can encourage, engage, […]
Women have been gaslighted Neena Modi Neena Modi Who am I? I am an Indian woman, a British citizen, an Asian Brit, a BME academic, a woman of colour, an immigrant, a mother, wife, a melanin medic….. Oh alas, labels are really not very helpful are they? Like most people, […]
The leaders who are not yet risen Dr Ayesha Ahmad Today I told a medical student that it should be her who is authoring research articles, and that it should be her who is the professor leading and governing the directionality of pioneering health interventions to address the nuanced […]
Leadership in the NHS Professor Frances A Bu’Lock Professor Frances A Bu’Lock Having been asked to write on this topic after given a talk at the RSM on innovation (managing our little patient with ectopia cordis), I was a bit flummoxed. My leadership? other people’s leadership? What is […]
You don’t need to go to Specsavers! Dr Bhavini Patel – Consultant Neurologist A good leader needs to have a long-term vision and an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses. A better leader understands that often, their strengths may also be their weaknesses. This long-term vision needs to […]
Scrubbing in and Standing Out Miss Samantha Tross – Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Samantha Tross Becoming a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon was the culmination of years of preparation and training. It was also the beginning of a new chapter as an independent practitioner. Finding out I was the first black […]
Clinical Leadership: lessons from the past to help build the future Lord Ara Darzi Lord Darzi Clinical leadership has been central to my values and vision of the NHS, from very early on in my career. What became apparent almost immediately when I started working was the immense knowledge and […]
Caring for Our Elders Verona Beckles There is much to be said about our ageing population and the need for strategies to help pay for the NHS in light of it (1). I’m increasingly moved when I hear of those that I speak to that live alone, are elderly, and […]
World Mental Health Day 2018 Why choose psychiatry? Professor Dinesh Bhugra, CBE When you mention the word psychiatry or mental illness, people start to think of odd behaviours. When I was in my second year at medical school in India I announced that I was interested in psychiatry. Many […]