This inaugural podcast episode features a discussion between Cathy MacDonald and Hannah Baird.
Cathy is a former Police Scotland hostage negotiator, with many years of experience around the topic of communicating at crisis moments. Hannah is an...
"The arrival of the offer of the FMLM safe space conversation in my inbox made me think how little time for reflection I have had in the relentless environment of the pandemic. Being able to take some time to talk confidentially about how it felt to...
by Dr Adam Januszewski
Trainee oncologist and FMLM Douglas Fellow
‘Unprecedented times’ has become a familiar phrase since the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis and news of the daily coronavirus ‘battle’ fought by frontline staff has spread widely....
By Simon Bird
FMLM Applied Associate
As Covid-19 has become the dominant theme in healthcare, many multidisciplinary teams found themselves in situations they could not possibly have predicted at the turn of the year.
Existing teams have asked...
by Dr Hannah Baird, Chair of the FMLM Trainee Steering Group
What is your background?
I was a charge nurse on the children’s ward here at Bolton. I went into management, took masters’ degrees, management training courses and aspiring executives...
By Dr Amanda Goodall
Associate Professor, Cass Business School
Life does not get much better for academics when students apply their learning at work. But it is truly humbling when they are using their management education to save patients’ lives in...
by Dr Cathy Jack
Chief Executive, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Darwin wrote in, ‘The Origin of the Species’: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most...
By Dr Hannah Baird
Chair of the FMLM Trainee Steering Group
What is your background?
I originally set out to be a neurosurgeon, after my mother suffered an acoustic neuroma. I really enjoyed the neurosurgery job as an SHO, but it made me realise I...
By Dr Trudy Foster
FMLM Lead for Scotland
It was always going to take an event of seismic significance to supplant coronavirus in the media’s attention. The appalling death of George Floyd in the USA and the subsequent protests resounding around the...