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 […]
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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 […]
“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 […]
AI vs doctors: The wrong question for healthcare’s future. By Clarissa Carvalho, Mary Madden, Remi Paramsothy
As AI technology is rapidly advancing, the question is can it really fill a burgeoning gap in clinical care? A shortage of clinicians has left patients languishing on waiting lists and filling waiting rooms. Can AI replace clinicians to fill this need? Recent claims in the media suggest it can. Microsoft announced that its AI […]
Leading with purpose: Strategic advocacy in action. By Nomalanga Makhanda & Malany Kalicharan
Serving as Chair and Deputy Chair of the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Strategic Advisory Group (CAHPO BAME SAG) has been one of the most formative experiences of our careers. This voluntary role has offered a rare opportunity to influence national policy, build inclusive leadership capacity, and advocate for […]
Of Pandemics and the Future. By Dr. Lind Grant-Oyeye
In 2019, I was preparing to attend a WHO summit on patient safety in Switzerland: a gathering of policymakers, government representatives, and practitioners. Then came the email notifying participants that the conference was no longer taking place, due to some delegates having to tackle a new virus in their region. Few could have imagined that […]
Shakespeare, strategy, and the soul of healthcare leadership. By Aliya Turk
Recently, I had the opportunity to take part in an unforgettable leadership development day delivered by Olivier Mythodrama for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM). This wasn’t your typical healthcare training session. It was immersive, unconventional, and deeply reflective — using Shakespeare’s Henry V as a mirror to explore our own leadership stories. […]