Lessons learnt: healthcare leadership from many cultural backgrounds
I have been very fortunate to have worked in the international environment for the last 10 years. This has given me practical experience of different leadership practices around the world. I am often asked how are we in Australasia different in our leadership experience?
Book Review: The Health Gap – The Challenge of an Unequal World
Michael Marmot’s work on the social determinants of health puts simply: That social injustice is bad for your health.
APAC 2014 Forum
Asia Pacific Healthcare Conference (APAC), September 2014 – Exceptional line up of international Speakers This year the speaker list for the Asia Pacific Healthcare Conference (APAC) brings under one roof some of the most internationally recognised and exceptional speakers in Healthcare. For the first time…
Strategically Engaging Your Organisation
Stretching your potential By Professor Thomas Malnight This is the third and last (article) in a series on strategically engaging your organisation. The first part, “Assessing your reality”, highlighted the importance of starting a strategy process by building an aligned perspective of your organisation’s current…
Our global networks: A Scottish perspective of change priorities
by Gerry Marr, CEO Tyneside NHS Trust The recession in Europe has been very deep but we believe that over time the economic challenges will resolve. We now need to respond to the demographic challenge of an aging population and the burden of disease that…
Rebels, Corporate Culture and Daring to Make a Difference
Foghound: “Is your Corporate Culture: Open door policy, closed lip reality?” There are a few speakers from Kevin’s feedback from the IHI Conference Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, Save Lives who have struck a chord for me for different reasons. Some for personal reasons, some for…
It’s a question of value for whom or for what?
I came away from, APAC Forum on Quality Improvement in Healthcare, a joint initiative of IHI and KO Awatea, feeling that there is a quiet “revolution” happening, led by individuals and clusters of seasoned health leaders with the political smarts to “read the tea leaves”,…