For many years my environmental conscience has steered my personal lifestyle choices: I don’t eat meat, I recycle, and I use public transport. However, it is only recently, after attending “Sustainability: a little less conversation a little more action” presented at the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management conference (2022) that I have started to […]
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Why are managers so often seen to be on the “dark side”, and who puts them there? by Emma Challans-Rasool and Charlotte Williams
Thank you for joining us in this second of our blogs that consider the current climate for NHS managers, why it matters and what we could all do to make things better. In such challenging times we must pull together to build hope, build solutions, build the future. Our first blog was a provocation – […]
Divining female leadership in the post pandemic era: By Dr Nagina Khan
Is it a special touch that leads women into a space where they can lead then struggle with balancing their lives or do institutions expect too much of a sacrifice in exchange for leadership status? As Jacinda Ardern makes an emotional exit, having come into power in 2017 at the age of 37 years, the […]
UK’s Healthcare leadership should focus on decriminalising abortions by Anna Sri
On Sunday 24th June 2022, the USA’s Supreme Court made a monumental decision that allows politics and laws (of each state in America) to criminalise women who seek a basic healthcare service – an abortion. Since then, UK politicians and lawmakers may consider enforcing new legislations, so that women and people could be denied their […]
Commissioning Editor Introductory Blog: Living up to more diversity and inclusion in health care leadership (research) by Jamiu O. Busari
Introduction BMJ Leader (BMJL) is one of the BMJ’s journals and is co-owned by BMJ and the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. It is an international, peer-reviewed, online-only journal that focuses on healthcare management and leadership. BMJL is constantly expanding its scope and taking bold steps to be a more inclusive search journal. We are […]
What should the future of junior doctor leadership development look like? by Anna Street, Liam Loftus, and Raees Lunat
The potential positive impact of junior doctor leadership is becoming increasingly recognised across the system, with both the GMC, and Royal Colleges, frequently expanding their expectations of junior doctors in the leadership domain. The question that stems from this is how do we then support and educate our junior doctors to achieve these competencies? Following […]
Getting to know you by Victoria Agunloye
I recently became a paediatric consultant and spend a large part of my day trying to look the part of a fully functioning leader. As juniors we get very little teaching on the topic and then get thrown off the treadmill of training, expected to be good quality leaders. As clinicians we are in the […]
Is working from home really working?
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting effect on the working practices in many industries and organisations, and the NHS is no exception. Video outpatient appointments have become increasingly common for many hospital specialties and over one in three GP consultations are now conducted virtually, compared with one in seven before the pandemic [1,2]. But […]
Organisational Values: A much needed refresh by Abdul Zubairu
‘Should we provide some additional phlebotomy appointments for the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)?’ I asked my wife as we sat having our evening dinner. The background to this conversation was that our local CCG had asked the GP Federation, for which I am a Medical Director of, to provide some additional phlebotomy service to deal […]
Is it possible to ‘Have it all’? by Josie O’Heney
Since September 2021 I have been working as a National Medical Director’s clinical fellow. This fellowship has been enlightening about what happens on ‘the other side’, with a break from clinical work and instead spending my days on teams, zoom and emails. One of the aims of the scheme is to expose trainee doctors to […]