I thoroughly enjoyed reading the BMJ Leader series of blogs on Core20PLUS5, written by the fabulous clinical fellows currently working across NHS England and NHS Improvement and Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). I am heartened that NHS England and NHS Improvement’s national approach to tackling health inequalities is understood and interpreted so well by our […]
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Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling by Francis Lao, Victor Do, Victor Do, Marck Mercado, Gian Agtarap, Esther Kim, Yipeng Ge, Amy Tan, Ivy Oandasan, and Ming- Ka Chan
Racism is a public health crisis (1,2,3). The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted racial disparities. In Canada, the highest proportions of deaths due to COVID-19 existed in neighborhoods with higher proportions of visible minorities (34.5 deaths per 100,000 in neighborhoods where >25% are visible minorities, in comparison to 16.9 deaths per 100,000 in neighborhoods where <1% […]
Connection: The key to collaboration. How can digital support Integrated Care Systems come July? by Hesham Abdalla and Masood Ahmed
This is the fourth blog in a series about timebanking. You can read the first blog here, second blog here and third blog here. With Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) on the ‘delayed’ horizon, the way we define problems and develop an approach will slowly and surely evolve. An ICS presents an inter-dependent and more closely […]
‘Magical Meander’: Why does central heating always break on the coldest day of the year?
This is the tenth 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. Why does central heating always break on the coldest day of the year? After a few recent experiences of […]
Creating tomorrow today: seven simple rules for leaders. Blog four: Predict and prevent: start at an earlier stage (“upstream”) in the intervention or care processes 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 […]
Leadership through adversity by Prof Keith Chappell
I believe most scientists are driven by the goal of making a positive difference in the world. That is certainly true of my team. Last year we had a shot at achieving that goal. Our team at the University of Queensland was one of the first groups tasked with creating a vaccine for the novel […]
We need True Leadership During the Pandemic by Hong Wai Onn
Leadership is just not about the title or power; Leaders need to be bold, brave, daring, open, vulnerable, and sensitive, in order to lead wisely. However, the true test of effective leadership in an organisation is not how they perform in good times, but more in times of crisis, such as the Coronavirus outbreak; which […]
Three lessons by Dipit Sahu
Three lessons to be remembered from the second wave as we unlock in India: COVID-appropriate norms will be soon forgotten, leadership by city administrators can make a big difference, and the virus will never leave us until everyone is immune The second COVID-19 wave in India was a significant learning experience about the Indian population’s […]
‘Magical Meander’: Walking the tightrope…
This is the eighth 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. As with so many management decisions, there isn’t really a bible to tell you what to do. Instead experience […]
‘Magical Meander’: Pillar Boxes
This is the seventh 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. A funny thing has been happening near where I live. On one single road in a short window of […]