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. […]
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In conversation with Dr Jamiu Q. Busari
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation where we talk to key opinion leaders around the world. Today we’re in the Caribbean and I’m talking to Jamiu Busari. Jamiu is a real globetrotter so, rather than tell you where he’s been, let me […]
Blog 1: Building a foundation of professional exclusion by Jo Hartland, Susannah Brockbank, Viktoria Goddard
Welcome to this first blog in the series “We need to talk about professionalism”, where we will explore the ways in which professionalism governs the acceptance of marginalised people within healthcare careers. Co-authored with Dr Jo Hartland (they/them) and guest authors, we will explore key concepts that will illustrate this issue. We hope this prompts […]
In conversation with Professor Amanda Goodall
To watch this interview, please follow this link Hello. I’m Domhnall MacAuley and welcome to this BMJ Leader conversation. Amanda has the most remarkable title – Professor of Leadership. Tell me a little about this title and about your career so far. AG: Well, I joined academia relatively late after a career working with leaders […]
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 […]
Drop Bio Health Pioneers At-Home Sampling for Clinical Research. By Cagla Ertugrul
Thanks to their convenience and personal privacy, at-home sampling and test kits first gained a foothold in the over-the-counter market with the introduction of pregnancy tests in the 1970s, followed in the 1990s by products for detecting sexually transmitted diseases. Since then, the product category has expanded widely to include self-administered swabs for DNA and […]
Clinical Leadership Placements: A View from a student Physiotherapist. By Kathryn Harris
My final placement as an undergraduate studying BSc physiotherapy was based with the NHS Leadership Academy, part of Health Education England. My university includes a leadership module within its 3rd year syllabus so I deemed this placement irrelevant, but open to see what might come of it, so I asked myself – What does good […]
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 […]
‘Magical Meander’: Double Whammy
As the sun shone today and I am working from home I could not help but reflect back to three years ago, when the sun was blazing. In fact blazing so strongly that my choice to work in the garden proved erroneous: both my phone and computer shut down due to overheating. I think it […]
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 […]