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 […]
Tag: Medical leadership
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 […]
Moving away from branded organisational values: why we need a disease-model for organisational culture by Ali Raza
Culture is notoriously difficult to define because it is made up of so many components and influenced by so many factors. One characterisation of culture is that it is the ‘distinctive norms, beliefs, principles and ways of working that combine to give each organization its distinct character’ (1). West et al. argue that the priorities […]
In conversation with Dr Helen Bevan, OBE
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello. I’m Domhnall MacAuley. Welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Today I’m talking to Helen Bevan. Helen used to have one of the trendiest job titles I’ve ever heard – “Chief Transformation Officer” and, I have even heard her described as the world’s leading medical social media […]
Enabling medical leadership in India and England: A comparative study – EMLIE by Professor Julie Davies and Dr. Kamal Gulati
Medical engagement has long been regarded as a critical component for effective performance in healthcare organisations. The World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that low- and middle-income countries such as India must increase coverage of priority health services to accomplish the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. Although the literature suggests various barriers and drivers faced by doctors […]