Day one - lunchtime sessions

A series of lunchtime sessions allowed delegates to explore specific leadership issues while enjoying their lunch. Below a taster of the conversations.

Inspiring and supporting women in medical leadership

As part of FMLM’s mission to strengthen medical leadership for the benefit of patients, we seek to increase diversity amongst medical leaders. During this session, Ms Vijaya Nath, The King’s Fund Assistant Director of Leadership Development, and Dr Jane Povey, Deputy Medical Director, FMLM, led the discussions on what more we can each do individually and what steps organisations could take to increase the proportion of women involved in medical leadership throughout the system.

Just make a better decision

Have you ever wondered how to cope when you fall off the end of the pathway, protocol or guideline? The workshop delivered the key principles of decision-making theory with applied examples and the chance for discussion. Attendees gained insights into their own personal decision style and ideas for development.

Better training, better care: Using medical education to drive clinical performance and patient safety

An interactive session inviting delegates to hear about the outcomes of the better training better care pilots, which have shown improvements to multi-professional team working, patient care and patient safety, was delivered by Mr Patrick Mitchell, Director of National Programmes, Health Education England.

Military member update from the Surgeon General

Military members met to hear from Air Marshall Paul Evans, Armed Forces Lead, FMLM, about and discuss activity relating to military members of FMLM including a look back on the regional meeting held in October 2014, appointments to the regional network, the DMS Leadership Strategy, Standards and Revalidation and a forward look for 2015.