‘If you want to go fast, go alone If you want to go far, go with others’ (African proverb) Much has been said and written about vaccine hesitancy and health inequalities in Black, Asian, and ethnic minority (BAME) communities, particularly during the Covid pandemic. Lower vaccine uptake and access to health services by BAME communities […]
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Time for a pop-up! by Ammara Hughes
This is the fifth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, third, and fourth blogs in the series. Pop-ups. The de rigeur of this millennium. You know you’ve made it if you have a farmer’s market or street market within a mile radius of you. We can’t […]
Creating tomorrow today: seven simple rules for leaders. Blog three: Root our transformation efforts in a sense of belonging by Helen Bevan and Göran Henriks
We have created a set of “seven simple rules” for leaders who want to create tomorrow today, based on our collective learning over seven decades as leaders and internal change agents in the health and care systems in England and Sweden and the work we have done with leaders in health and care in many […]
Happy New Year! The debacle of second doses by Ammara Hughes
This is the fourth blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first, second, and third blogs in the series. 30 December 2020 A much needed long bank holiday this Christmas. Not as happy as it should have been for many. A second wave of COVID was in full […]
Can Swiss Cheese Modelling be used to design processes that protect against workplace discrimination? by Ali Raza
According to the ‘Swiss Cheese Model’ propounded by James Reason, complex systems can yield losses when flaws in defences against hazards become aligned. Flaws in latent conditions at the ‘blunt’ organisational end permit active failures to be committed at the ‘sharp end’ by individuals (1). The ‘Swiss Cheese’ approach has commonly been regarded to have […]
Social care, leadership and COVID: a tangled mix by Richard Humphries and Nicholas Timmins
COVID-19 has thrown social care in England into the spotlight in a way that nobody would have wanted. The death toll in care homes, in people’s own homes, and among care staff. The desperate early struggle to get personal protective equipment to carers that mirrored the problems in the NHS, but at times seemed worse. […]
Cool boxes and care homes by Ammara Hughes
This is the third blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first blog here and second blog here. We love a protocol in the NHS. Our intranets and desktops are crammed full of them. Of course, we need them for robust clinical governance. The trouble is, by the […]
‘Magical Meander’: No money…
This is the sixth part of the BMJ Leader blog series written anonymously by “Magical Meander”, a medical manager working in the NHS, to help align perspectives and build understanding of medical management across these two professions. One of the joys of working in a large hospital is that one inherits the benefits: the amazing […]
Why it’s important for India to have its own Centre for Disease Control (CDC) by Dipit Sahu
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Indian prime minister called for an early and total lockdown of the country on March 25th, 2020. The early lockdown in India was a promising step because a similar lock down in China had managed to control the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The lockdown began to be […]
Going viral by Ammara Hughes
This is the second blog by Dr Ammara Hughes on Primary Care Leadership and COVID vaccination. Read the first blog here. Saturday 19 December Second Pfizer delivery awaited. It had been a long week with the anticipation and then successful delivery of the first 975 vaccines culminating on Friday. We had accepted the challenge of […]