The multiple challenges to primary care are well rehearsed; an excessive workload, a need to achieve health equity, achieving genuine patient centredness, providing better care and preventing more illnesses. Simple, right? But wait, there’s more. All of this needs to be done whilst addressing the financial costs, the environmental costs and the impacts on the […]
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To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello, I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Today I’m talking to Göran Henriks in Sweden. You are one of the world leaders in the health care and quality movement but let me bring it back to your childhood, were you always a leader? […]
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“The Power of Preparation for Surgery” A Co-Authored Book Review with doctors and patients. By Ms Eleanor Kissin, Mr Lawrence Mudford and Professor Scarlett McNally
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Humanitarian Leadership: Across to the Caribbean. By Eleanor Harvey
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In conversation with Sanjiv Ahluwalia
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello. I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Today I’m talking to Sanjiv Ahluwalia who is leading one of the new medical schools in the UK. Its quite an adventure. But let me take you back to the beginning. Where did it all start? […]
In conversation with Claire Lemer
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello, I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this “BMJ Leader Conversation’. Today we’re in the UK and I’m talking to Clare Lemer. Let’s bring it back to the very beginning. What started you in medicine? Claire Lemer: So that’s a really good question because, if you’d known me […]
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At its heart this book is a call to make the world a fairer place and to recognise our power, not only as citizens but also as doctors. As a psychiatrist, author Lynne Jones clearly recognises that we identify most with personal encounters and so, alongside many references, statistics and philosophical analyses, the warmth of […]
In conversation with Sue Holden
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello, I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Today we’re in the UK and I’m talking to Sue Holden. You’ve had the most fascinating career. But, you didn’t start off in the health service, tell us where it all began. Sue Holden: My very […]
In conversation with Pedro Delgado
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello, I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to MedicsVoices.com, where we talk to the key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. Today I’m talking to Pedro Delgado. You’ve had a remarkable journey starting in Venezuela, educated in the US, working with IHI (Institute of Health […]