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Facilitation, Trust, and What Healthcare Leadership Is Gradually Teaching MeLet the Work Breathe: How Facilitation Beats Control in Real Leadership
Byadmin May 10, 2025May 10, 2026

Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on projects that initially appeared ambitious, operationally difficult, or unlikely to scale successfully. One of those was the development of the Postgraduate Virtual Learning Environment (PGVLE.co.uk), which grew from a frontline educational need into a platform now supporting more than 60,000 NHS users across…

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Occupational Sound Exposure in Orthopaedics
Byadmin June 2, 2023December 7, 2023

Your hearing is precious – occupational sound exposure in orthopaedics is significant!

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Hello Worcestershire!
Byadmin February 14, 2022December 7, 2023

After 2.5 years at SaTH, during an incredibly difficult time for everyone across the nation I have taken an exciting new opportunity at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust as a Lower Limb Arthroplasty and General Trauma Surgeon. I am joining an exciting and diverse team committed to providing the best care across the county southern…

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Goodbye SaTH
Byadmin February 11, 2022December 7, 2023

After 2.5 years at Shrewsbury & Telford Hospitals NHS Trust I have opted to leave. In what has been a fantastic opportunity to developed my consultant persona and establish my practice, i’ve been facilitated by a terrific department at Telford. During my time here I developed my independent practice, built the Virtual Fracture Clinic and…

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News | PGVLE | Publications

Aspiring Vascular Courses – Aspire 7 & Aspire 8
Byadmin August 1, 2021December 7, 2023

So a proud collaboration with the Vascular Society to deliver the Aspire 7 (FRCS practice course for 40 trainees with 23 faculty over 2 days in March 2021) and Aspire 8 (Consultant preparation course for 16 trainees with multiple faculty from the worlds of management, law and medicine). Resounding success and the formats used are…

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National Association of Clinical Tutors Article
Byadmin February 5, 2021December 7, 2023

Virtual learning continues to establish itself and the infrastructure that we’ve built in the West Midlands is garnering interest everywhere! It was incredible to receive a request for an article by Dr Ed Briggs (Editor, NACT Newsletter) sharing our regional experience with a national audience. In the middle of the pandemic and the need for…

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BOA Education & Careers Committee
Byadmin January 3, 2021December 7, 2023

As my work with the PGVLE goes on, my experience continues to grow. I now look forward to take these ideas to the British Orthopaedic Association Education & Careers Committee as the new Lead for Simulation and Digital Learning. I hope to continue on my personal mission of promoting collegiality and collaboration in healthcare.

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Virtual Learning – Moving Forward
Byadmin December 3, 2020December 7, 2023

This month my article on the ‘Virtual Learning – Moving Forward’ was published in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics In this article I highlight the way in which Virtual Learning has been a real opportunity for positive change in the way we learn, but it you can’t just do it!…

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Collaboration, Facilitation & Empowerment
Byadmin March 8, 2020December 7, 2023

This month my article on the ‘Birmingham Orthopaedic Network – Collaboration, Facilitation, Empowerment’ was published in the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics In this article I highlight the awesome potential of trainees within the clinical research and education environments. It is a testament to the team that I headed that we…

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Health Education England Secondment
Byadmin November 1, 2019December 7, 2023

I’ve joined the team at Health Education England as the West Midlands Training Programme Director for Core Surgical Teaching on a 3-year secondment. My main role is to coordinate the delivery of the teaching programme for approximately 120 Core Surgical Trainees in the West Midlands. This involves delivery of both the surgical curriculum as well…

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