News & Opinion
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FMLM welcomes announcement of 350 extra medical school places
News 13 May 2024
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FMLM member awarded for King’s Birthday Honours List 2023
News 24 Jun 2023
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Conversations and Connections at BMJ Leader Live
News 27 Feb 2023
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FMLM Fellowship: closing the gender gap
News 27 Feb 2023
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SHSC becomes the first Mental Health Trust to be Endorsed by FMLM
News 20 Feb 2023
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Announcement of Rich Withnall as new FMLM Chief Executive
News 18 Jan 2023
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Modesty can only get you so far...
Editorial 2 Dec 2022
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FMLM Fellowship expanded to cover all healthcare leaders
News 25 Nov 2022
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How can leadership drive and deliver a shared vision for general practice and primary care?
Editorial 22 Oct 2022
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Unfinished business: The development of medical management roles in the UK NHS
For some time, in the UK National Health Service (NHS) and more widely there has been an ongoing drive to co-opt doctors and other clinical professionals into management and leadership roles. This...
Article 29 Jan 2021
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Alone and Together- the ‘infectious rise’ of e-gatherings
In 1973, the Stanford Psychologist David Rosenhan published a paper ‘On Being Sane in Insane places’, where he argued that a diagnosis of insanity, and by extension other mental health disorders,...
Article 22 Jan 2021
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Does the separation of research and care hold back healthcare improvement?
With all the complex demands of delivering safe and effective health and care services, it is easy to regard research as an 'optional extra', but this would be to lose some of the considerable, but...
Article 22 Jan 2021
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Pharmacy rising to the challenge
I remember it was the end of March. I had been working from home for about two weeks before I was contacted to join the pharmacy senior team at my previous hospital to support the frontline response...
Article 15 Jan 2021
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Why the most dangerous period of the pandemic may be around the corner
"Everything will be fine in the end. If it is not fine, then it is not the end." Oscar Wilde
Article 11 Dec 2020
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Strange times: breathtaking experiences
The past nine months have been incredibly stressful for people and communities all over the world, especially for healthcare professionals. As medical students, we are required to learn all we can...
Article 11 Dec 2020
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Do we really have time for compassionate leadership in a Covid-19 pandemic? Reflections from Leaders in Healthcare 2020, Wales and its largest Nightingale hospital
By Dr Ricky Frazer
FMLM Associate Fellow, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff
Article 4 Dec 2020
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Research is crucial at this time - to establish the facts before we reach new conclusions
Research-based presentations and sessions have become an important part of the Leaders in Healthcare conference programme and this year we aim to deliver one of the best collections of medical...
Editorial 23 Oct 2020
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The impact of Covid-19: a medical student perspective
Three of us were role playing - the patient, the student and the examiner. We were practicing cardiovascular examinations in our shared flat when we simultaneously received a notification from the...
Article 16 Oct 2020
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Covid-19: Reflections from the hidden frontline - psychiatric care
At the height of the global pandemic, medical students remained in lockdown, but as lockdown restrictions eased, medical students returned to academic placements, but nothing had prepared us for the...
Article 1 Oct 2020
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Covid-19: the flu jab is now a critical leadership issue
Following new Public Health England research[1] showing those with flu and Covid-19 are at greater risk of severe illness and death, Professor Mayur Lakhani and Dr Tony Berendt discuss the need for...
Article 25 Sep 2020
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Following my instinct - from Zambia to FMLM
In February this year, I was told I had gained a place on the prestigious National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme. I had recently returned from living and working in Zambia and was keen to...
Article 18 Sep 2020
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Lessons in safety from another industry
The pandemic has brought enormous changes, perhaps most noticeably to the commercial aviation industry - it has provided many excellent leads which medicine has followed.
Article 11 Sep 2020
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When aspiring medical leaders inspire
FMLM now has the privilege of managing a multi-professional fellowship portfolio - By Donna Hickford, FMLM Head of Professional Services.
Article 11 Sep 2020
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Professor Sir Neil Douglas: a tribute
It is a privilege and an honour to pay tribute to Sir Neil Douglas, our Founding Chairman – but it is a privilege and an honour which has come too soon.
Article 28 Aug 2020
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Professor Sir Neil Douglas
It is with the most profound sadness that I inform you of the death of Professor Sir Neil Douglas, the Founding Chairman of FMLM. Neil died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, on Sunday 23...
Article 25 Aug 2020
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What you permit, you promote – however small
Last month, I briefly raised the concept of biological weathering. The impact of many small insults borne silently in the act of fitting in.
Editorial 21 Aug 2020
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The clinical accountant
By Duncan Orme
Operational Director of Finance, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Article 14 Aug 2020
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Covid-19: a failure to learn from history
They say the difference between a leader and a visionary is that the former is able to hit targets that few others can, whereas the latter can hit targets that few others can see.
Article 14 Aug 2020
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One small reckless act, one giant blow to my career: how can coaching help a doctor in this situation?
It is universally accepted that working in the NHS is now more stressful and difficult than ever. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact of work pressures was highlighted by the GMC at their...
Article 7 Aug 2020