Topic for Melting Pot Lunch 28 March 2018

By 8pm in most departments in most UK hospitals, the majority of people whose title implies a leadership or management role are on their way home, returning the following morning at, let’s say 8am plus or minus one hour.

​Does this imply that for around half the average day, our great NHS hospitals are ‘un-led’ or does the mantle of leadership pass to another group who lead without access to fancy titles?

Topic for Melting Pot Lunch 9 March 2018

​One hundred years since the vote was first extended to women in the UK and over 140 years since women were allowed to train as doctors in Britain, do we have equality of power for women in healthcare, either as professionals or as patients? What would real equality look and feel like, and what will it take to get there?