Culture

Providing exceptional clinical care at any time, let alone during a prolonged pandemic, demands exceptional performance from medical leaders and their teams.

Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2nd Global Nursing Congress 2021[1] on Mentoring leaders for cultural change: creating a window to the soul of cultural gatekeepers.

I always strive to bring my clinical experience to the projects I lead and work on, as a clinical voice is almost always well received, making it a real privilege to lead and shape work from this perspective. However, after five months away from clinical work, it is very easy to slip into more corporate ways of thinking and start to forget what it is really like on the front line.

The third annual Keogh lecture – and the first since 2019, due the Coronavirus pandemic – took place online this week. The lecture was given by Professor Jonathan Van Tam MBE, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer and member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), co-Chair of the Global Health Security Advisory Group (GHSAG) pandemic influenza working group (PIWG) and Professor of Health Protection, University of Nottingham.