Roddy Millar is the Founder and CEO and editorial director at IEDP Ideas for Leaders, and has worked with the foremost leadership researchers and developers for the last 20 years – making their work more accessible and valued. He is driven to make organisations more human. His blog discusses the importance of embracing human learning…
Mapping the Direction of Travel
Chris Davis was previously the PBS Project Manager for the Learning Disabilities Managed Care Network (LD MCN) which covers NHS Borders, Fife, Forth Valley and Lothian. Now a Clinical Educator in Adult Acute Mental Health Nursing with NHS Lothian Chris talks about the challenges of adapting the LD MCN service to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Then and Now
Alison O’Donnell reflects on her return to a nursing role as part of the COVID-19 vaccination team. I retired as a lecturer in nursing from the University of Dundee in 2014 but kept on my nursing registration as I was still co-supervising two PhD students as an honorary lecturer until 2017. When my registration came…
Journeying Towards Compassionate Communities
Alison Bunce is the Programme Lead for Compassionate Inverclyde, a volunteering project that runs several services tackling loneliness and isolation within the community. Alison was awarded the Queen’s Nurse title in 2019. You can read her profile here. I have been in post as a Senior Palliative Care Nurse for just over five years now.…
Making meaningful changes for those in Scotland’s care homes
Andrea Wyllie is the Chief Executive of Greenock Medical Aid Society; she shares her experience of reintroducing indoor visits to care homes during the pandemic. Although this work brought significant media attention and presented many challenges Andrea knew that the meaningful difference for residents and visitors meant it was necessary. At the start of the…
Asking Women What They Want and Nurses/Midwives What They Know
Michele Stranger Hunter was the Founder and National Program Director for One Key Question in the USA. Her work on reproductive and preconception health is respected internationally. OKQ has become ‘best practice’ and successfully implemented in more than thirty states. Scotland must create its own approach and solutions based upon our cultural, policy, and professional…
Kintsugi – The Art of Respectful Improvement
Erica Reid is a Trustee of QNIS, Executive Coach and an IHI/Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow. Erica’s blog relates the Japanese art of Kintsugi to successful project planning, a task often met with unpredictability and the need for careful consideration. She explains why being accepting of failure is the only real way to nurture improvement…
Embarking on a leadership journey
Nikki Forsyth is a Health Visitor and Queen’s Nurse currently acting up as Team Lead for Health Visiting and School Nursing. Nikki shares her journey into the new role in the first of a three-part blog series about her secondment. At the start of 2021, I was given the opportunity to take on secondment as…
Hiding in Plain Sight
Joan Gracie is a Supervisor for the Family Nurse Partnership with NHS Forth Valley. Joan talks about the importance of addressing blind spots in preconception health and why she wanted to get involved in QNIS’ new programme of work Healthier Pregnancies, Better Lives to support women to better prepare for pregnancy. Over the past 30 years…
Meaningful Action on Alcohol Harm
Alison Douglas is the Chief Executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland. Alison shares her view on the unhealthy relationship with alcohol which persists in our communities, unintended harm caused by alcohol and the preventative measures we can take to reduce these risks. “Alcohol is celebrated throughout our society and culture. Yet the harm caused by alcohol…
