I am the 80th President of the Medical Women’s Federation (MWF), the organisation that has been the voice of medical women in the UK for 105 years. The organisation’s history is inextricably intertwined with the history of suffrage in the UK. MWF has a proud and consistent history of effective activism, feminism, and mentorship. On […]
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Trans allyship in healthcare – what ‘good’ looks like by William Ballard, Tom Gardiner and Rob Cullum
This LGBTQ+ history month, three LGBTQ+ healthcare professionals give you the lowdown on what it means to be a good trans ally in healthcare If there’s one thing you can guarantee about a career in healthcare, it’s that you will meet people of every ethnicity, every sexuality, every age and gender. However, healthcare professionals rarely […]
Injustice in Healthcare by Chandraa Bhattacharya
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on the seriousness of health inequalities within England, exacerbating the significant discrepancy between healthy life expectancy that is known to exist between the least and most deprived areas of England. A national approach to reduce health inequalities and narrow the life expectancy inequality gap, has been developed […]
Leadership and health inequalities by Bola Owolabi
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 […]
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 […]
‘Leading from the front with a clear organizational vision and shared values’ by Farzana Rahman
As a team of radiologists who also lead a teleradiology start-up, we spend a lot of time thinking about what learnings we can take away from each role, especially when it comes to leadership. We often get asked, is there a difference between the leadership needed in the NHS and the leadership needed for running […]
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 […]
“Bright spot thinking – learning from best practice to tackle inequalities in cardiovascular disease” by Tom Gardiner
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on the seriousness of health inequalities within England, exacerbating the significant discrepancy between healthy life expectancy that is known to exist between the least and most deprived areas of England. A national approach to reduce health inequalities and narrow the life expectancy inequality gap, has been developed […]