Social capital in healthcare

March 27, 2024By Rich ShorneyMedical, Opinion No Comments

The premise of social capital is based on social relationships that facilitate cooperation and collective action for mutual benefits. In health-care organisations specifically, social capital is positively correlated to risk management and quality of care, as well as improving employee well-being and satisfaction, which in turn improves productivity, staff turnover and overall performance outcomes. Social … Read More

Support your team with Feedforward in 2024 – Not Feedback

March 1, 2024By Rich ShorneyNews, Opinion 1 Comment

Yes. Feedforward, not feedback. Very simply put, rather than providing positive or negative feedback, feedforward consists in providing future-oriented options and solutions Feedforward, a concept developed by business educator and coach, Marshall Goldsmith, is now an increasingly popular practice in today’s workplaces. When an employee receives feedback, they get information about how they’re presently performing. Feedforward … Read More

What makes a good wound care formulary ?

December 21, 2023By Rich ShorneyMedical, Opinion No Comments

A multidisciplinary group of UK experts convened for a meeting in June 2023 to develop this Best Practice Statement, focusing on best practice for developing a formulary, use of evidence and change management processes. The group included experts within tissue viability, lymphoedema, wound and vascular care, podiatry, operational management, procurement and education. See this link … Read More

Compassionate leadership

June 27, 2023By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience – Dalia Lama Compassionate leadership involves a focus on relationships through careful listening to, understanding, empathising with and supporting other people, enabling those we lead to feel valued, respected and cared … Read More

AHP Leadership Programme

May 10, 2023By Rich ShorneyNews, Opinion No Comments

The BAPO Leadership Programme, supported by Health Education England & developed by Real Healthcare Solutions Ltd, aims to support the next generation of leaders in P&O. This report captures the experiences & learnings at the launch event of the BAPO Leadership Programme which took place at the end of 2022.Read the report here: http://ow.ly/k6xU50MK1nS

The Empty Chair

August 20, 2022By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

As more and more people return to work, we are beginning to get some insight into the challenges people will now be facing. More obvious are the physical changes required by the return to work and reconfigured team dynamics driven by increased remote working. If you were to scratch the surface though, the less visible … Read More

Adaptability in Healthcare

July 11, 2022By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

As we move forward in 2022 have you highlighted your Number One challenge for this year? Has that challenge changed from your thoughts back in January? If so why? Something new on the horizon perhaps or merely the changing landscape in which you work? Whether you work as a healthcare professional or in industry what … Read More

Virtual Advisory Boards in 2021 – what we have learnt

January 8, 2022By Rich ShorneyNews, Opinion No Comments

Our valued support service of developing, hosting and facilitating Virtual Advisory Boards has gone on-line.  Following on from the success of supporting hundreds of national and international ad boards; focus groups; forums and discussion panels in the “real world” we extended our on-line facilitation offering in 2021. We were able to adapt to the challenge … Read More

Dark Web Threat Intelligence

September 8, 2021By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

We all spend a lot of time online don’t we? Whether shopping, working, on video calls or on social media, we are using our smartphones, laptops and connected devices more and more. That all means the creation and sharing of our data. The same goes for our healthcare and medical device businesses and organisations, not … Read More