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Just and Learning Culture: A New Way of Caring
Mike Bird posted an article in Safety culture programmes
In 2016, Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust embarked on a journey towards a just and learning culture. Since then, they have made great progress and achieved significant results. They have produced an excellent interactive online presentation for anyone who wishes to improve the culture of the healthcare organisation in which they work. It describes why they started on the journey, what they did and the kinds of results they have obtained. It is an overview of a substantial programme, and demonstrates that while changing from a retributive 'blame' culture to a restorative 'just' culture may be challenging, it can be done - to the benefit of patients and staff. -
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The toxic handler: organisational hero – and casualty
Claire Cox posted an article in Culture
In this article published in Harvard Business Review, Frost and Robinson discuss toxic handlers – managers who voluntarily shoulder the sadness, frustration, bitterness and anger of others so that high-quality work continues to get done. Managing the pain of others is hard work. Toxic handlers save organisations from self-destructing, but they often pay a high price – emotionally, professionally and sometimes physically. Some toxic handlers experience burnout; others suffer far worse consequences, such as ulcers and heart attacks. This article discusses burn out within healthcare and other industries, how it can happen and offers solutions. Free full text on sign up and registration. -
Content ArticleIn this BMJ blog, Drs Blair Bigham and Amitha Kalaichandran discuss hospital culture of bullying and a culture of not speaking up. When hospitals fail to create a culture where doctors and nurses can speak up, patients pay the price.
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Content ArticleThis paper from Kneebone et al, published in BMC's Advances in Simulations proposes simulation-based enactment of care as an innovative and fruitful means of engaging patients and clinicians to create collaborative solutions to healthcare issues.
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Content ArticleThe Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) have developed a self-assessment tool for multi-professional healthcare teams, irrespective of their background or sector. Individuals, teams and organisations need clarity and support on how to establish and sustain high performing multi-professional healthcare teams. This self-assessment tool offers a simple and accessible measure of team performance to facilitate this process.
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Content ArticleThe Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in the United States has developed a model that health systems can use to adapt and thrive in uncertain times by creating direction, alignment and commitment.
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Content ArticleThis guide, by NHS Improvement, contains key questions for chairs, chief executives and senior leaders about common barriers to clinicians taking part in senior organisational management. It addresses the NHS Long Term Plan priority around nurturing the next generation of leaders and supporting all those with the capability and ambition to reach the most senior levels of the service. It was developed in response to the 2018 recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to ensure more clinicians from all professional backgrounds take on strategic leadership roles.
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Content ArticleThe Director of Medical Education (DME) at Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust developed a range of forums for junior doctor engagement with the trust, via representative groups, which meet, individually, with senior executives 10-12 times a year. These forums include a foundation year group, core medical trainee group, medical registrar group and more recently a surgical and anaesthetic group. Each group is chaired by a junior doctor, who sets the agenda and is responsible for organising the meetings. This structure emphasises that the forum’s agenda is focused on the needs and concerns of trainees, and encourages attendance and discussion.
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Content ArticleDr George Findlay, Medical Director at Western Sussex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, talks on the theme of 'Becoming well-led' and how leadership can deliver quality improvement through engaging and empowering staff.
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Building leadership for inclusion narrative 2019
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Boards
Inclusion is core to the NHS Constitution, yet it remains one of the biggest challenges that health systems face globally, nationally and systemically. In the face of a growing body of evidence, which demonstrates the critical role that inclusive leadership plays in ensuring that health and care systems operate most effectively for patients and public, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that leaders at all levels are equipped and capable of leading inclusively and effectively. -
Content ArticleNikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Group Trustee, talks about how we might measure if a human factors intervention has been implemented on an operational basis.
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Content ArticleThis paper, by Michael West, Regina Eckhart, David Altman and Bill Pasmore, from the King's Fund, written in partnership with the Center of Collective Leadership, shows how collective leadership can be implemented to deliver a sustainable culture change in improving patient care.
