I was delighted to be invited by Fresenius Kabi to speak at the Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (IrSPEN) Satellite Symposium on ‘Strategies to Implement Change in the HSE’ on Tuesday 10th March in Dublin. I was speaking alongside Professor Zena Moore, Head of the School of Nursing, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The title of my presentation was ‘Performance Improvement and Leadership in the Health Service’. You can see my slides …
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Speaking at eHealth and Care Conference on Thursday 4 October 2014
It was a pleasure to speak at the eHealth and Care in Northern Ireland: Celebrating Success, Planning for the Future conference on Thursday 9th October 2014. I was speaking in Plenary Session 4: Planning for the Future, alongside Dr Kieran McGlade, Clinical Senior Lecturer, QUB, Ms Mairead McAlinden, Chief Executive, Southern HSC Trust, and Mrs Charlotte McArdle, Chief Nursing Officer, DHSSPS. The session was chaired by UTV Presenter Paul Clark and took place on day 2 of the conference …
‘Thinking outside of the box’ article published in NI Healthcare Review
My article on Medical Leadership, my own leadership journey, my portfolio career as a Physician and Freelance Consultant, and the HSC Changeday experiment was published in Issue 92 2014 of the Northern Ireland Healthcare Review. You can read it in the online version of the magazine below.
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 …
The NHS Leadership Conundrum
Once upon a time in a Trust far, far away I met an aspiring leader called Sue. Sue was trying very hard to affect change and do something good. She was very focused on improving the quality of the service, making it safer, more efficient and improving the patient experience. But Sue was facing a lot of obstacles and was being frustrated by the leaders and management in the hierarchy above. She eventually started to doubt …
Top Tweets from MLS2013
A selection of tweets from the Northern Ireland Medical Leadership Symposium (www.medleadsymposium.co.uk) on Friday 21 June 2013 at Titanic Belfast.
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.
SK Diary – w/c 22 April 2013
Meeting with Simon Hamilton MLA On Wednesday morning I met with Simon Hamilton MLA, the Assembly Private Secretary to the Minister of Finance and Personnel who is set to succeed Sammy Wilson MLA in the role in 2013. This meeting came about through my involvement in healthcare social media. Simon and I crossed tweets when I was live tweeting at NICON 2013 and he was tweeting from an accountancy conference. We were both tweeting about …
SK Diary – w/c 15 April 2013
This week’s diary is a little late as I got caught up on Sunday with a technical issue while creating this Storify story. Opening of GlaxoSmithKline Office in Belfast On Wednesday afternoon I attended the opening of GSK’s office in Belfast. They are the only international pharmaceutical company to open a permanent office in Northern Ireland and they told guests that this signals their commitment to Northern Ireland and the HSC. The Chief Medical Officer, …
SK Diary – w/c 25 March 2013
I didn’t have time to write a diary for last week because I was busy writing the NI Healthcare Social Media Guide so I have combined the last two weeks in this post. It’s been a busy and exciting couple of weeks with lots of meetings, energy and collaboration! IHM Leadership Lunch with Anne Clydesdale On Tuesday 19th I attended the IHM (@ihmnireland) Leadership Lunch with Anne Clydesdale, Director of the Leadership Institute at Queens University …
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