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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Leadership is not for the faint hearted
For the past year, I have been a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow. It has been without doubt one of the most extraordinary years of my life.
Blog 11 Sep 2016
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Lessons from the third sector
Macmillan Cancer Support is the first third sector organisation to join the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme and I was the first clinical fellow to be placed there.
Blog 1 Sep 2016
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The NHS needs us now more than ever
Gareth Hynes on what makes this an unprecedented time to be a junior doctor
Blog 9 Aug 2016
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Foundation doctors leading the way to a no-blame culture
Lessons Learnt is the brainchild of the extremely innovative Dr Maria Ahmed. Now an academic clinical fellow in primary care, she was a foundation year doctor, like me, at the conception of her...
Blog 31 May 2016
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Supporting the next generation of emerging leaders
An inspirational event for the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellows and Alumni was hosted by Bupa on 10 May.
Article 31 May 2016
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What it means to be a Chief Medical Registrar. The power of small changes
“You need to get to the bottom of why they are so unhappy and start to cheer them up.” This was the debrief I was given when I was approached to take on the Chief Medical Registrar pilot scheme.
Blog 31 May 2016
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Is flattened hierarchy disrespect?
Think about this scenario: a nurse criticises one of the consultants for not having handled a young patient gently. The consultant defends himself but the nurse tells him off and storms out of the...
Blog 6 May 2016
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Introducing Collaborative Quality Improvement
Trainees have a unique ability to identify opportunities for improvement within hospital systems, but we often feel unable to highlight problems and implement change.
Article 6 May 2016
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Junior doctors – time to lead
There has never been a more urgent need for junior doctors to lead. FMLM’s Trainee Steering Group is currently recruiting regional representatives for Wales, North of England, Scotland and Armed...
Article 22 Mar 2016
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FMLM to host virtual breakfast for International Women’s Day
FMLM will mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8 March by holding a virtual breakfast session, online and on social media, from 6.30am – 11am.
News 25 Feb 2016
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Coaching: focused on you achieving your goals
Coaching is a very effective leadership development tool and one which is widely used in the NHS for career-related decisions, getting the work-life balance right, stress management, time management...
Article 24 Feb 2016
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How real leaders lead – showcasing the best of trainees’ BTBC projects
Junior doctors operate on the shop floor of healthcare organisations and are consistently dealing with systems that can improve. They, with their fellow shop-floor MDT colleagues, are best placed to...
Blog 11 Feb 2016
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Geriatricians as leaders and managers to improve care
Last year I became the first trainee in geriatrics selected onto the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme, and spent 12 months on ‘out of program experience’ completing this fellowship.
Blog 25 Jan 2016
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A look at Quality Improvement with GP trainees
I was very pleased to hear that my poster was accepted at the FMLM Cambridge QI Conference 2015, which took place last November. The study we conducted looked at the perception of Quality Improvement...
Blog 25 Jan 2016
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Junior doctor-led QI – developing an online dynamic triage system
The FMLM Cambridge QI Conference 2015 took place late November 2015 and I was given the great opportunity to present a junior doctor-led project to develop a new referral system from A&E to...
Blog 25 Jan 2016
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Learning through doing – making sense of a new cultural context
Hello, I’m back and I’m excited to be writing again – this time from ‘up country’ in Kailahun District where it’s 40 degrees and I have three hours’ generator electricity per day, bucket water and...
Blog 21 Jan 2016
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Integration - a Scottish context
No matter what the model of integration is, medical leaders from primary and secondary care backgrounds should grasp the opportunity to shape local services and develop more appropriate models of...
Article 20 Jan 2016
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I want to be one of the architects of the future
We all know that in another ten years’ time, the NHS won’t be delivering care in the same way it does now. At that point, I don’t want to be standing on the sidelines shrugging my shoulders...
Blog 11 Jan 2016
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As a junior doctor, why am I interested in medical leadership?
My journey began in 2007 at Bristol University’s Faculty of Medicine. I had applied to read medicine on the back of a few experiences as a student that had inspired me to want to make a difference to...
Blog 14 Dec 2015
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Creating leadership resilience in emergency care
As a new registrar in emergency medicine, the timing of the first joint conference between the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)...
Article 14 Dec 2015