A researcher spends years developing expertise, publishing papers, securing funding, and earning the recognition of colleagues. Eventually, that success leads to an invitation to direct a research group, an academic department, or a scientific institution. The appointment seems logical. After all, who better to lead science than someone who has demonstrated excellence in producing it? […]
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Inclusive Health: The Capital We Cannot Afford to Deplete. By Kate B. Hilton and Lindsay Martin
Health care systems experience the consequences of broken trust before they recognise it as the problem: patients disengage, workers leave, teams stop speaking candidly, and communities pull back from the institutions meant to serve them. By then, its erosion has surfaced as turnover, fragmented care, avoidable harm and higher costs. What if we treated trust […]
Tackling cancer misinformation: Lessons from building a public health campaign. By Colin Smith, Melanie Marks Purnode and Alex Ruani
Cancer misinformation is not new, but its reach is. On social media, misleading cancer claims can reach millions and often attract more engagement than evidence-based information. But what can organisations do about it? A public health campaign is one approach. Here, we share what we did and the lessons others can apply. World Cancer Research […]
Integrated Care Board Accountability. By Shiva Pandey
Integrated care boards and their members must be held accountable for decisions that lead to adverse patient outcomes. The National Health Service is undergoing an unprecedented change. Not many of my colleagues, let alone the British public, know that integrated care boards have been instructed to cut their running costs by 50% (NHS England, 2025). […]
Parenthood: an unexpected training ground for leadership. By Robyn Brown
When I returned to work after maternity leave, I found myself thinking about what I had missed. I had been away from clinical practice. I hadn’t been leading projects, attending conferences or taking on additional roles. For a while, it felt like my professional development had paused. Then I realised it hadn’t. Over the previous […]
The new NHS Leadership and Management Framework paving way for greener healthcare leadership. By Rammina Yassaie
In 2020, the NHS in England demonstrated global leadership by becoming the first healthcare system to commit to reaching Net Zero carbon emissions by 2040. Five years later, Greener NHS outlined the progress made towards this aim, whilst also acknowledging how much work there is still to do. To date, much of the green improvement […]
Unlocking the Potential of the Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Workforce. By Georgia Roskin and Marie England
Through the national Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pilot, nine areas across England have been testing new approaches to universal and targeted early intervention. The London Borough of Barnet is one of these pathfinder sites, working to improve outcomes for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) through earlier and more accessible […]
From aspiration to access: why the NHS needs capability pathways for its next generation of leaders. By Marina Khan
I have a career ambition I have rarely said out loud: I aspire to lead at the highest levels of the NHS. Not because I am attached to a particular title, but because I want to contribute to healthcare at scale, shaping strategy, influencing systems and helping to build a health service that works better […]
Unlocking the Leader Within – A Book Review by Sabrina Hersi and Alice Deasy
This concise textbook seeks to introduce medical students to leadership concepts and support the development of leadership and teamwork skills. Its international authorship seeks to make the book relevant to a global audience. Divided into three sections – Self Mastery, Teamwork and Residency Applications, the book introduces key leadership concepts before taking a more targeted […]
Clinicians already reason like designers – they were never given the instruments. By Daniel Steenstra
There is a sentence most clinical leaders have heard in some form: “You have excellent clinical skills, but you’ll need to develop your management thinking.” It is delivered kindly, usually with a course recommendation attached. It is also, on the evidence, backwards. Consider what a clinician does with an undifferentiated presentation. She gathers symptoms and […]