The Covid-19 pandemic has forced healthcare leaders across the country and the world to adopt tools in crisis management, quickly organizing and adapting responses to rapidly evolving patient volumes and needs. Through trial by fire, emergency and hospital leadership across the US has needed to build new capacity, re-invent workflows and create novel algorithms to […]
Latest articles
Drop Bio Health Pioneers At-Home Sampling for Clinical Research. By Cagla Ertugrul
Thanks to their convenience and personal privacy, at-home sampling and test kits first gained a foothold in the over-the-counter market with the introduction of pregnancy tests in the 1970s, followed in the 1990s by products for detecting sexually transmitted diseases. Since then, the product category has expanded widely to include self-administered swabs for DNA and […]
Clinical Leadership Placements: A View from a student Physiotherapist. By Kathryn Harris
My final placement as an undergraduate studying BSc physiotherapy was based with the NHS Leadership Academy, part of Health Education England. My university includes a leadership module within its 3rd year syllabus so I deemed this placement irrelevant, but open to see what might come of it, so I asked myself – What does good […]
No more silos–our survival and success depend on collaborative leadership and development, and we can’t start too soon. By Emma Challans-Rasool and Charlotte Williams
This is our third blog, and it finds us further ahead in our ongoing journey to understand why managers and medics struggle to lead collectively and with trust and transparency in the NHS today. In our earlier blogs we explored how well understood healthcare managers are[1] and how partnership working in practice can be hampered […]
‘Magical Meander’: Double Whammy
As the sun shone today and I am working from home I could not help but reflect back to three years ago, when the sun was blazing. In fact blazing so strongly that my choice to work in the garden proved erroneous: both my phone and computer shut down due to overheating. I think it […]
Moving away from branded organisational values: why we need a disease-model for organisational culture by Ali Raza
Culture is notoriously difficult to define because it is made up of so many components and influenced by so many factors. One characterisation of culture is that it is the ‘distinctive norms, beliefs, principles and ways of working that combine to give each organization its distinct character’ (1). West et al. argue that the priorities […]
An Open Letter to Stephen Barclay on diversity by Roger Kline
Dear Mr Barclay. Good Government is built on evidence-based strategy. Your department and its media allies’ call (1) for NHS organisations to spend money on patient care and frontline services“ rather than “diversity and backroom bureaucracy” assumes equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work is an alternative to patient care. However, your predecessor Sajiv Javid commissioned […]
In conversation with Dr Helen Bevan, OBE
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello. I’m Domhnall MacAuley. Welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Today I’m talking to Helen Bevan. Helen used to have one of the trendiest job titles I’ve ever heard – “Chief Transformation Officer” and, I have even heard her described as the world’s leading medical social media […]
In conversation with Professor Jamie Stoller, Cleveland Clinic, USA.
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hi I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to these BMJ leader interviews. Today I’m talking to Professor Jamie Stoller, but Jamie is more than just a clinician. He’s a physician, an author, and a thought leader in leadership. Jamie, maybe you tell us a little bit about your […]
Why the manager / clinician partnership is essential – meeting elective recovery targets inclusively by Bola Owolabi and Paul Doyle
If we are intent upon answering our most serious questions, from climate change to poverty, and curing diseases to designing new products, we need to work with people who think differently, not just accurately. Matthew Syed, Rebel Ideas, The Power of Diverse Thinking A wicked problem Nationally, clinicians are working hand in glove with managers […]