The online assessment tool takes staff through a range of exhibited leadership behaviours across these seven domains relevant to the context in which they operate. It stresses that it is essential for staff to be competent in each of five core...
We ask a lot from our leaders! They present themselves, are selected, and are identified to step up to the plate. They come for many reasons and they are vital to the future Health and Wellbeing of our planet.We ask them to learn how the world works...
"This place is like a cattle market!" exclaimed one visitor recently, upon seeing our A&E waiting room on an evening walk-around. Sure, it was extremely busy - we had been feeling the full force of the A&E "crisis" and the seething crowd of...
The FMLM revalidation helpdesk has been set up to offer medical leadership and management specific advice on revalidation and appraisal to our members. Advice will be provided via a network of specialty advisors from across the UK.
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Professor John Ashton CBE, joint director of public health for NHS Cumbria and Cumbria County talked on the TV news recently of a crisis in moral leadership in the public sector. I wonder if he has been reading one of the most inspiring books I have...
The NHS has had more reform since its inception in 1948 than I’ve had hot dinners. I am quite sure that in the course of my career, I will become as frustrated and cynical as some of today’s consultants about yet another restructuring. And yet...
Three years ago tomorrow I went back to Medical School. As a Quality Improvement Fellow funded by the Health Foundation I spent six weeks at a summer school in clinical effectiveness, part of a Masters Course in Public Health. On 5 July 2010 I sat...
Sometimes, things are so large and complex that one can hardly believe that there was a point where their existence was merely a thought in someone's head. For the NHS, the world's fifth largest employer and one of the most envied healthcare...
Whilst waiting to catch a train from Edinburgh to London, I overheard a pair of commuters talking about George Osborne’s spending review. More specifically they were discussing whether certain cabinet ministers would be jealous of Jeremy Hunt,...
Let’s start with the simple and obvious. The inception of the NHS was one of the most remarkable enactments of leadership for the common good, in the history of the United Kingdom, and arguably far beyond. So as the NHS reaches sixty-five, why on...