Becoming a parent is an extraordinary thing. Few will forget the moment they held their baby for the first time, and the countless humdrum yet astonishing moments that followed as their child learned, smiled, walked and talked. Parents of young children often spend hours outside, perhaps deepening our sense of connection with the natural world. […]
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Leadership and Team Working in Art: The MOTH Talk CPR Art Project
Talking about palliative illness and future treatment wishes, including future resuscitative attempts, may not sound like a project that translates to art easily. But a collaboration between Falmouth University School of Art, and Cardiff University School of Medicine proved this notion wrong.[i] A graphic design collaboration within medical palliative care settings demonstrated a powerful and effective way […]
Greener Leader Blog Series: Exploring our circles of influence as climate leaders. By Eleanor Murray
Minimising the impacts of climate change is a huge challenge, one that requires both individual actions and system changes. This can be explored through our circles of influence, our networks, and our roles as resource stewards, improvement agents, and advocates for health promotion. Circle of influence. The climate emergency is a concern to us all; […]
People behind numbers, people behind their disease: Using art as an additional healthcare perspective. By Hilde Buiting and Gabe Sonke
The number of arty exhibitions about and from people suffering with cancer is rising. At the same time, during the last couple of years, (science in) medicine is using art increasingly too. The present contribution in Lancet Oncology1 is such an example. Using art in the scientific literature, provides new opportunities […]
When it’s time to go, is there anywhere for me to go? By Sue Holden
Leadership within the NHS has never been more critical. The need to support staff, remain resilient to the ongoing operational challenges create space to develop services which are locally responsive and inclusive are all pre-requisites for organisational success. However, for every leader there is also the need to know when it is time to move […]
Greener Leader Blog Series: Leadership on the climate emergency must extend beyond NHS sustainability
Consciousness and concern about the climate emergency are growing across society – the evident impact on the health and wellbeing of global populations is acknowledged by healthcare institutions underscored by robust evidence. Articles about the response to the threats we face feature with increasing frequency across medical literature and this is to be welcomed. However, […]
Introducing the “Greener Leader” Blog Series
The climate crisis is arguably the biggest leadership challenge that humanity has ever faced. It is a prime example of system complexity illustrated by our rich interconnectivity and our interdependence on the delicate ecosystem which sustains all of our lives. Healthy people cannot exist on a poorly planet; we are Earth and Earth is us. […]
Leadership in Crisis Management: Lessons from Emergency Medicine in the initial wave of the Covid-19 pandemic by Yongtian Tina Tan
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 […]
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 […]