Features & Interviews

Even during the Covid-19 emergency, managers and clinicians are working to improve NHS services. We report on a digital project that is transforming the experience of postnatal care for women at Chelsea and Westminster hospital.

NHS managers across the UK are discovering the joys - or horrors - of working from home. While we may be on the cusp of a permanent change to working culture, writes Alison Moore, we’ve seen little consultation or thinking about the long-term benefits and pitfalls.

Local MiP reps and link members are entitled to time off for their trade union duties. Our legal advisers explain your rights.

Caroline Clarke, chief exec of the Royal Free NHS trust – which has been at the forefront of the battle against infectious disease for nearly 200 years – tells Matt Ross how staff across the trust and the capital have mobilised to tackle coronavirus, and considers the thorny challenges ahead

I spent 40 years building health services for elderly people living at home – then my mum fell ill, and those services let her down. In the post COVID-19 world, we must plug the gaps between primary, community and social care provision

Having overseen the merger that created Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group, chief exec Paul Jennings spent two years managing a shift from a contracting to a collaborative culture. Then COVID-19 arrived – giving the city’s health and care managers just weeks to transform services. Matt Ross reports

Deficiencies with testing have left many patients with serious undiagnosed liver disease for years on end. Now, a new intelligent testing system developed by NHS Tayside and Dundee University offers hope of earlier diagnosis and treatment.

The NHS needs top-class leaders, but our approach to performance management and promotion filters out good managers in favour of brow-beaters and manipulators.

Dale Walmsley, who lead the popular session on pension planning at the 2019 MiP Members’ Summit, sums up his advice for managers looking towards retirement.

It’s illegal for your manager or employer to victimise you for being a member of MiP or carrying out MiP activities. Here we explain the legal protection available to you.