by admin | 15/08/2025 | Life of a Clinical Director
Stepping into the role of Clinical Director brings with it a unique vantage point — one where clinical priorities and financial realities converge. This year, I’ve been tasked with helping deliver quite a significant savings target within my directorate. It’s a...
by admin | 15/08/2025 | MBA
As part of my MBA journey, the Understanding the Economy module stood out for its relevance, challenge, and direct applicability to my real-world leadership role within the NHS. Coming from a clinical and operational background, I approached this subject...
by admin | 06/08/2025 | General, Reflections
There are moments in every career where you pause – not to count the number of cases, clinics, or call – but to breathe, reflect, and acknowledge the arc of the journey. Recently, I passed one such milestone in my surgical career. I won’t dwell on numbers,...
by admin | 28/06/2025 | Personal Projects
Sometimes creativity flows like resin – unexpectedly, organically, and beautifully. After making my first resin board as a birthday gift (with English Elm and a vivid green pour that served cake before stealing the show), I didn’t expect it to lead to anything...
by admin | 28/06/2025 | MBA, Surgical Prep
One of the most rewarding parts of my MBA journey so far has been applying theory to real-world challenges – and nowhere was that clearer than in my recent Sustainable Operations assignment. I centred the project around a live procurement improvement at...
by admin | 18/05/2025 | MBA
Introduction: From Submission to Reflection This was more than just a marketing module. It was a milestone. My first MBA assignment, and the first piece of academic writing I’ve submitted since completing my PhD thesis in July 2013. I mean i’ve written plenty of...
by admin | 10/05/2025 | MBA
In the evolving landscape of higher education, the arrival of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has sparked intense debate. Is it a shortcut undermining academic integrity? Or is it a legitimate aid, akin to a calculator in mathematics or Grammarly in writing? As an...
by admin | 10/05/2025 | Clinical Service Improvement, Life of a Clinical Director
There’s a quiet type of leadership that never makes it into strategy documents or press releases. It’s found not in titles or job descriptions, but in those unspoken moments of coordination, compromise, and care — when a system under pressure still finds a way to...
by admin | 10/05/2025 | Career Path, Digital Fellows, Life of a Clinical Director, Professional Development
I’ve spent the last few years leading projects that weren’t supposed to succeed. A national-scale postgraduate learning platform built from scratch (PGVLE.co.uk), now scaled to over 60,000 NHS users with potential to support the whole NHS. A digital strategy born not...
by admin | 16/04/2025 | MBA
From Starbucks to Supplements: An MBA Journey Through Marketing in Action Introduction: When Marketing Became More Than Just a Module There are few MBA modules that blend academic theory and real-world insight as powerfully as Marketing. Over the past term, I went...
