When I picked up “Women and Global Health Leadership” to read, I had a simple wish: to find out how women in leadership got to where they are, what inspired them, and if they had any regrets about building their careers alongside raising a family. But the book did more than that; it helped me […]
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Equity talks: The Shifting Global Health Landscape and the Urgency of Local Leadership. By Azua Wilfred
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity brings together health professionals from around the world and across disciplines to build leaders, combat disparities and create community. Its mission is to develop global leaders who not only understand the roots of health inequities but also have the skills and courage to create more equitable organizations and communities. Each […]
Changing Attitudes to Work in the Workplace: How Do We Keep Our Workers? By By Kish Bhatti Sinclair, David Beattie, Cate Bell, Suzanna McGregor & Nagina Khan
Why Are So Many Leaving the Workforce: How Can We Make Them Stay? Health, social work, and social care in the UK face a deepening workforce crisis. In March 2023 alone there were over 112,000 NHS vacancies (an 8 % vacancy rate). This staffing shortfall is a result of compounded pressures: austerity, Brexit, and the COVID‑19 […]
The numbers game and portfolio careers. By Dr. Takanayi Mureyi
The numbers game Here we stand in the midst of the horrors of the newly released 2025 specialty training competition ratios for UK doctors(1). For those less familiar, this refers to the number of applicants divided by the number of available posts in each specialty — a measure of just how competitive each field has […]
The NHS’s digital blind spot: Why clinical safety can’t be an afterthought. By Dr. Keith Grimes and Dr. Youssof Oskrochi
The uncomfortable truth about our digital reality The recent “letter” from NHS England’s CCIO regarding Ambient Voice Technologies (AVTs) served as a wake-up call to practitioners about responsibilities when deploying digital health technologies and AI in clinical settings[1], and exposed an uncomfortable truth: many clinicians were unaware of the legal obligations surrounding digital tools. In […]
Equity talks: Leading Through Identity and Representation: A Journey in Policy Research and Health Equity. By Jasmine Maringmei
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity brings together health professionals from around the world and across disciplines to build leaders, combat disparities and create community. Its mission is to develop global leaders who not only understand the roots of health inequities but also have the skills and courage to create more equitable organizations and communities. Each […]
The lost generation of COVID-19, A critical analysis of health and social inequality in post-pandemic Britain – A book review by Dr Alice Deasy
This book by public health academic Dr Jatinder Hayre describes how the COVID pandemic exposed long standing fault lines of inequality, how these inequalities were worsened by the pandemic and how they have the potential to have long term consequences across society. It’s divided into seven chapters; the first three of which focus on the […]
“ChatGPT is not your doctor, dietitian, or therapist”. Why we urgently need safety evaluation standards for generative AI in health, but who will take the lead? By Alex Ruani
AI is entering healthcare at breakneck speed. Headlines celebrate above human-level performance on medical exams, while tech giants showcase models capable of everything from clinical reasoning to patient counselling. Yet behind the promise lies a grim reality: ChatGPT and its peers are not doctors, dietitians, or therapists. They are probabilistic systems built to generate convincing […]
Why your patient’s results might be invisible to you – a call for clinicians to advocate for better, safer, data. By Alexander Churton, Kanthan Theivendran, Felix Peckitt and Mohamed Elriedy
Many of us have experienced a modern-day healthcare challenge: the complexities of the information governance (IG) processes that safeguard patient data. Data sharing is key for care provision, understanding how systems are working, and improving services delivered. As a collective of clinical and technical professionals, the authors are calling for clinician engagement to help shape […]
How leaning into my values allowed me to lead – Reflections of a student midwife. By Vanessa Jagger
As a final year student midwife embarking on my leadership module, I must confess I thought to myself…. “Why do I need to learn about leadership, I am only a student, I am not a leader.” When I thought of leaders, I summoned imagery of powerful, authoritarian, senior ranking management, not little old me! I […]