Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service On Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Manchester for my annual panellist training. We were reminded that we are no longer GMC panellists, but are in fact MPTS panellists. The MPTS was launched on 11 June 2012 and the blurb on the front of our training folder describes it succinctly: We got a useful update on the work of the GMC Standards & Ethics Team. The Medical Act 1983 (amended) gives …
SK Diary – w/c 26 November 2012
Each weekend I will reflect back on the working week and post some observations and thoughts. I hope you find it interesting! Chief Executive & CMO Visit On Monday the Trust Chief Executive and the Chief Medical Officer visited the acute medicine unit at the RVH. This follows the Minister’s announcement last week that he was relaxing the special measures on Belfast Trust due to the progress made in addressing 12-hour breaches in the ED. …
My Week With a Healthcare Regulator
Following the example set by Dr Mark Newbold, CEO of Heart of England Foundation Trust, I have decided to do a weekly blog about my work week. I decided to do this because I found Dr Newbold’s posts of interest, as did many others. This sparked many suggestions on Twitter that others should do the same. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a while but decided to take the plunge this week (12 – …
SK Diary – w/c 19 November 2012
I have been inspired by the example of Dr Mark Newbold, CEO of Heart of England FT, to write a weekly diary on my blog. Each weekend I will reflect back on the working week and post some observations and thoughts. I hope you find it interesting! This is the first one….. Belfast Trust Emergency Department in the spotlight again The Belfast Trust ED was on BBC Breakfast while I was having my morning coffee …
The 4D System for Conquering Your To Do List
In this article I’m going to explain one aspect of my own personal productivity system. I always have loads to do and many more tasks and ideas come my way every day. So I had to adopt a system to deal with them. The one I have chosen is beautifully simple, as the best ones usually are. So simple in fact, that I was kind of doing these things already. But the difference now is …
Leaders don’t have to have all the good ideas
I have had the opportunity to work with and observe many different leaders in a variety of different organisations, and one characteristic I have noticed in effective leaders is that they don’t feel the need to have all the good ideas themselves. Instead, they identify problems that need to be solved or objectives that need to be met and draw upon the creativity and experience of their team and others around them. They encourage everyone …
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