Over the past few months, there has been a rapid increase in wellbeing and mental health awareness in the workplace. After the difficult few years everyone has had, it has become apparent how important it is to have a happy, productive and well looked after workforce. Wellbeing should not be a “one-off” event or something…
Pictorial: Habits of an Improver
One of the most important things for carrying out improvement work is your approach and behaviour. Over the years, I have seen good and not so good approaches to improvement work. I drew this pictorial to help us check ourselves: Are we displaying the right behaviours and thinking like an improver? There are many different…
Pictorial: What is Clinical Governance?
Clinical governance in healthcare can be hard to describe in a few sentences. There are many components to it all working together to ensure safe, effective and well-led services are provided. Here’s my graphic on what clinical governance is; it can be used to help people understand all the elements included in it and understand…
Pictorial: The Role of a NHS Manager
Being a Manager in the NHS is a challenging yet rewarding role. Often, the work of Managers are all done behind the scenes, not recognised or unknown. Managers are the glue that bind services and teams together, that make sure things are safe and make sure things are running properly. It is extremely challenging environments…
Recovery and Rehabilitation
As part of my aim to share 100 posters free for the NHS for anyone to use, poster number 6 is relating to rehabilitation for patients in Hospital. Wellness, recovery and wellbeing is an important factor in recovery, returning to normal and getting home safely. It is important that patients also know what to expect…
Why is Culture Important?
The most powerful thing that helps organisations excel as well as individuals succeed is the culture around them. We are not robots, we are diverse and unique individuals who want to feel valued, appreciated and part of a team. From an organisational perspective, the right culture is crucial to good outcomes, success, innovation, retention, performance,…
Don’t Feed the Email Beast
In today’s society we can get tangled up in emails all day long. Working in a busy environment can make it difficult to manage all the email demands that come through. They can take over your life, make you feel like you have not been productive and suck you into the repetitive cycle of replying…
Mental Health during COVID
It is important that during these difficult times, you create your own rules and follow them to ensure you look after yourself. It can feel overwhelming to think of all the impacts COVID has had on many lives but you have to get through it to the other side. Don’t let it win. Keep going.
Switch Off
A pictorial to help you switch off
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