Life as a Clinical Director

Tackling Surgical Savings with Strategy and Purpose

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...

In the Trenches, Let Us Lead: Collaboration, Constraint, and the Case for Courage

In the face of limited resources, orthopaedic teams are finding new ways to deliver care through collaboration, pragmatism, and quiet leadership. Here’s why the NHS needs executive courage, not just control.

Let the Work Breathe: How Facilitation Beats Control in Real Leadership

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...

Clinically Driven, Competitively Appointed

There’s a quiet moment, just after the email lands, when the weight of a new role begins to settle in. Being appointed Clinical Director through a competitive process isn’t just a personal milestone — it’s a chance to serve. It marks the transition from contributing...

I was met with two responses when I took this job. It was either ‘Congrats, wish you all the best’ or ‘ do you know what have you let yourself in for’.

Well I’m hoping my extensive experience with HEE/NHSE on digital projects has given me a broad range of skills needed to do this job. So i’m going to do my best and try to enjoy it 🙂

@OrthopaedicOz