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Dr Hannah Laidley, AFY2, University Hospitals of Leicester I have less than 12 hours to get two more set of feedback on my TAB but instead of being on the wards begging any and every member of staff who walks past to save me I am burying my head in other things I […]
Leaders In Healthcare 2018: Speaking Truth to Power
For foundation doctors, speaking up about risks and errors is one of the biggest challenges we face. Sir Robert Francis famously called junior doctors “the eyes and ears of the NHS”, but we can only step up to that challenge if we speak out about what we are seeing and hearing. In her […]
Guest Post: Leadership Is Vital … Especially for Medical Students
Neil Calderwood is a final year medical student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. When I was studying in Brighton he was always passionately campaigning for universal access to healthcare so when I caught up with him at Leaders In Healthcare 2018 last week I really wanted him to share his reflections with Medical […]
Leaders In Healthcare 2018: Rt Hon Matt Hancock
It would be interesting to hear from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care any day. But on the morning Matt Hancock was due to speak to Leaders In Healthcare 2018, the cabinet was in turmoil and the Brexit Secretary had just resigned. Naturally the delay to the Secretary of State’s appearance […]
Leaders in Healthcare 2018: Junior Doctor Leadership – Beginning Your Journey
This was the session I was most looking forward to. It’s the reason why we blog and the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management Trainee Steering Group did not disappoint. Considering it was the so-called breakfast slot at 8am, prior to the keynote speeches, Hall 7 at the ICC was impressively full of […]
Leaders In Healthcare 18: Chief Medical Officers Panel
I’m lucky enough to be spending half of this week at Leaders In Healthcare 2018, a national conference from the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and the BMJ. Over the next few posts I’m going to cover some talks and themes emerging from the day. At the risk of quickly becoming outdated, […]
Approaching the Gender Kidney Donation Gap
In the corner of the medical ethics community where I write, it sometimes feels as though it is taken for granted that organ sale would increase the number of ‘donated’ kidneys. I’ve written before about the uncertainty surrounding post-mortem organ donation policy and there are similarly murky waters around living kidney donation. In […]
Sludge in Healthcare
This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science. He gives the example of a company that offers customers their money back, but makes it procedurally complex to get it back so that few actually go through with it. I’ve written about nudging on […]
Is It Time The NHS Becomes ‘Ship-Shape’?
By Dunni Adeleye When looking for a perfect example of efficient and effective leadership and management in an organisation; we do not need to look any further than the Royal Navy and its ethos. This begs the question, what is the Royal Navy doing and how can we translate that to our practice […]
Can You Do Leadership and Management from AFY1?
Balancing leadership and clinical responsibilities is a perpetual challenge for doctors. As academic foundation doctors we ‘psych ourselves up’ for leadership during the application and interview process. By the end of final year we start explaining why we were so excited about going to Leicester. Suddenly FY1 starts, it’s all night shifts and weekends, […]
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