News & Opinion
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FMLM welcomes announcement of 350 extra medical school places
News 13 May 2024 -
FMLM member awarded for King’s Birthday Honours List 2023
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FMLM Fellowship: closing the gender gap
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Conversations and Connections at BMJ Leader Live
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SHSC becomes the first Mental Health Trust to be Endorsed by FMLM
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Announcement of Rich Withnall as new FMLM Chief Executive
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Modesty can only get you so far...
Editorial 2 Dec 2022 -
FMLM Fellowship expanded to cover all healthcare leaders
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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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Lessons from month three as a Clinical Fellow
This month’s lesson is about the importance of understanding the bigger picture, or trying to...
Blog 6 Dec 2011
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Does clinical leadership help patients or doctors CVs?
The topic of ‘clinical leadership’ has the habit of bringing up all sorts of responses which, with the increasing amount of airtime it’s receiving, are more and more frequently being debated.
Blog 28 Nov 2011
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Send for the Clinical Leadership Fellow
I saw an advert in BMJ Careers last week. It is searching for a cohort of newly CCT’d doctors to be Senior Fellows in Clinical Leadership.
Blog 23 Nov 2011
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Welcome!
Blog 20 Nov 2011
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The state of medical edu-ka-shun
In my blog, I’ll do my best to decipher the latest health publications and news, from GMC reports through to the Francis Inquiry. Hopefully this will be as informative to you (especially those with...
Blog 18 Nov 2011
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Let’s cut the cliché: Why plain speaking is always best in the NHS
The language of leadership permeates the NHS and often contains cliché and jargon. In June 2011 David Cameron gave a speech on the NHS reforms which was highly figurative and peppered with metaphor...
Blog 10 Nov 2011
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Why ‘generalist’ is not a dirty word
A friend of mine suffers from bouts of anterior uveitis, a painful condition of the eye. She was on holiday in America recently when it flared up, and she saw a local ophthalmologist.
Blog 7 Nov 2011
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Lessons from month two as a Clinical Fellow
Reflections on readings and experiences this month are three:
Bureaucracy
Strategy
The lean startup
In Economy and Society, Max Weber claims 'bureaucracy' may be characterised by six central...
Blog 31 Oct 2011
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Could the checklist make surgery less safe?
I am known at my hospital for having worked at the National Patient Safety Agency. People approach me frequently with queries about the surgical safety checklist. Nearly all questions I can answer...
Blog 25 Oct 2011
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What’s been happening up North?
Over the past year I have been fortunate enough to work on the North West Leadership Schools pilot, an initiative funded by the Strategic Health Authority and supported by the National Leadership...
Blog 11 Oct 2011
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Femininity and flexibility: The future of leadership in surgery?
At present while 40% of doctors are female, only 28% hold consultant posts and only 8% of all consultants are female surgeons (Elston, 2009). This raises interesting questions about the nature and...
Blog 3 Oct 2011
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Lessons from month one as a Clinical Fellow
It’s week four, day three of the NHS Medical Director's Clinical Fellow Scheme with NHS Kidney Care for me and I’ve been thinking about what I’ve learned so far. For me, the key lessons of this first...
Blog 27 Sep 2011
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24/7 healthcare for 24/7 illness
During an evening locum A&E shift recently, I referred a child for an orthopaedic opinion. An FY2 doctor discharged her home, after discussion with his registrar.
Blog 27 Sep 2011
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Do good doctors lead or manage their patients?
There is evidence that doctors like the term 'leadership' and certainly prefer it to 'management'. Leadership holds a certain mystique which is unhelpful as it may be interpreted as a skill with...
Blog 22 Sep 2011
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What... you think my emails are too long?
Over the summer I got the chance to be a medical student guinea pig for a 360° feedback tool based on the new NHS Leadership Framework.
Blog 19 Sep 2011
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Failing at the QIPP challenge?
The NHS has been given the job of saving £20 billion in four years. This is variously known as the QIPP programme or the Nicholson Challenge. It has been described as so big it can be see from outer...
Blog 19 Sep 2011
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Turkeys, Christmas and the education & training reforms
The education and training aspect of the Health and Social Care Bill has, to some extent, been overshadowed by the much more headline-friendly changes in commissioning, the management cull and the...
Blog 9 Sep 2011
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Does size matter?
The relentless call for clinical leadership to deliver better quality care whilst also cutting costs has intrigued my colleagues at the grassroots.
Blog 6 Sep 2011
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Advocacy, emotional blackmail or just good politics?
The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) decided to withdraw approval for Avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer recently. They heard evidence from individual women whose lives had been...
Blog 5 Sep 2011
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Encouraging Disruptive Leadership
As the Faculty for medical leadership and management opens for business, I’m wondering where junior doctors will fit into its infrastructure.
Blog 30 Aug 2011