This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Dr Mark Roberts, Consultant in Acute and Geriatric Medicine, and Scottish Patient Safety Programme Fellow. If you would like to contact Mark please let me know via the Contact Page or leave your comment below. In light of Dr Liam Donaldson’s sobering report on the state of the healthcare system in Northern Ireland, a reminder of 10 positive issues relating to health provision in NI …
5 Reasons Why Leadership Walk Rounds in Hospitals Should be Banned
Leadership Walk Rounds are just one of the leadership and management fads I’ve seen in my medical career so far. Having been on several wards in several hospitals when these have occurred I have noticed a number of problems which lead me to believe these should be banned and replaced with some real, difficult, down and dirty, hard to measure – but easy to see, nitty gritty LEADERSHIP. 1. The fact that Leadership Walk Rounds …
Key Messages from NICON Briefing with Robert Francis QC
A collection of tweets with key messages from the briefing with Robert Francis QC at Templeton Hotel, Templepatrick on Wednesday 24 April.
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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