Medical students, junior doctors and The Kings Fund think tank: engaging in leadership
Rebecca Rohrer, Elizabeth EmsleyWhat is medical leadership, how can it work for you and how can you get involved? These were some of the questions posed by the King's Fund to a group of FMLM trainees...
By Elizabeth Emsley
Blog
24 Jul 2012
The Effective Leadership Environment
Quite recently, I was giving a lecture at the International Conference on Emergency Medicine in Dublin relating to 'effective environments' in the workplace.
By Darren Kilroy
Blog
10 Jul 2012
Why medical leaders should tweet
During a recent phone call with Peter Lees (founding director of FMLM), he was a little surprised that I knew that he had been at the recent King’s Fund leadership summit[1],[2], espousing the...
By Fiona Pathiraja
Blog
28 May 2012
So Me Leadership
Browsing through the NHS Commissioning Board papers (as one does) I was interested to see the emphasis put on the notion of ‘membership’ for Clinical Commissioning Groups and the importance of...
By Martin McShane
Blog
10 Feb 2012
Lessons from month three as a Clinical Fellow
This month’s lesson is about the importance of understanding the bigger picture, or trying to...
By Carl Reynolds
Blog
6 Dec 2011
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 elements:
By Carl Reynolds
Blog
31 Oct 2011
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...
By Michael Hobkirk
Blog
3 Oct 2011
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...
By Carl Reynolds
Blog
27 Sep 2011
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.
By Stuart Holmes
Blog
19 Sep 2011
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...
By Ronny Cheung
Blog
9 Sep 2011
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.
By Piyush Durani
Blog
6 Sep 2011
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.
By Fiona Pathiraja
Blog
30 Aug 2011
The challenge
When they write the history of the last twenty years of the NHS, what will they say about the medical profession?
By Peter Lees
Blog
22 Aug 2011
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