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BOA Travelling Fellowship
I feature in this months edition of Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics (Vol 5 Iss 4 December 2017). I utilised the travel fellowship from the BOA to visit the renowned EndoKlinik (Hamburg). Tremendous opportunity to see how continental colleagues do things with some definite practices i’d routinely utilise. It will be interesting to see how…
Joining SaTH as a Substantive Consultant Surgeon
Today I’ve started consultant life at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH). I’ve been appointed to complement the existing team in providing a general trauma service and also to further develop the arthroplasty service in order to maintain the highest and the best outcomes for patients in and around Shropshire. Exciting but busy times…
HSJ 2019 – Proud Finalist
This year was not our year, but I had a tremendous time at the HSJ Value awards in Manchester this year. On reflection being a finalist and receiving recognition for my work with the Birmingham Orthopaedic Network was tremendous, but it also whetted my appetite to continue driving forward and developing bringing more ideas to…
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Aspiring Vascular Courses – Aspire 7 & Aspire 8
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…
National Association of Clinical Tutors Article
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…
Facilitation, Trust, and What Healthcare Leadership Is Gradually Teaching MeLet the Work Breathe: How Facilitation Beats Control in Real Leadership
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…
