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 […]
Associating healthcare, homelessness, policy and political determination by Nagina Khan
Winter 2022 is approaching again in Canada and sub-zero temperatures kill the homeless – I know this from my volunteer work at a homeless and outreach centre in Ontario. A 52-year-old male told me that he lives in a tent under a tarp in a backyard of a home. The owner doesn’t know he’s there […]
“Managers value you; do you know enough to value them?” by Emma Challans-Rasool and Charlotte Williams
We have all read headlines that the NHS is overly controlled and bloated at the top by managers, who if they were just stripped away would see much better value for the public and make doctors and nurses’ lives easier. It is true that as a manager working in a non-clinical capacity, the public, the […]
NHS Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow Blog Series: “The forgotten professional group” by Healthcare Scientist Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow
The NHS employs over 50,000 Healthcare Scientists [1], yet many NHS staff are unaware that Healthcare Science is itself a professional group, distinct from Allied Health Professionals. Our professional identity can often be so lacking that many are unaware they are healthcare scientists themselves! This lack of cohesion can be partly attributed to the highly specialist […]
NHS Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow Blog Series: “Carving a creative path out of the dentistry crisis” by Dentist Regional Clinical Leadership Fellows
It will be no surprise to anyone that NHS dentistry is at crisis point. Increasing media coverage over recent months has highlighted legitimate concerns around access to NHS dentistry, with the deeply worrying impact this has on those with the greatest need for oral care. Whilst this situation feels desperate, it is often in the […]
Chains of Kindness by Nicki Macklin and Hesham Abdalla
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up” John Holmes One of the most joyful things about choosing to practice with care and kindness in our work as health professionals as well as in our personal lives, is that kindness can lift us up just as much as […]
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 […]
Alone we are strong, together we are stronger by Shabir Shivji
Oral Health and CVD Prevention – The Power of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) We must seek any ‘silver linings’ for the NHS from the dark clouds of COVID. The Pandemic has focused minds on the challenge of reducing health inequality and reminded us that prevention is more effective and cheaper than medical management of […]