Author: Abhishek Bhartia 

"A leader must be able to define an ideal state and get people enthused about moving towards it" said Dr Prab Prabhakar, a consultant paediatric neurologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), as we sat down together in my office. I had met Dr Prabhakar a few months ago in London and was pleased that he was taking a day out of his vacation in India to visit us. [...]

Authors: Dr. Medha Chillal; *Dr. Richard Neal; and Dr. Adrian Plunkett

We were interested to read the recent article, "Changes in Medical Errors after Implementation of a Handoff Program," by Starmer et al. (N Engl J Med 2014; 371:1803-1812) about the benefits of I-PASS. The I-PASS system has been adapted for use as a handover tool at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) over the last year and has undergone iterative modification following feedback surveys to arrive at its current format. [...]

Author: Lena Zhu

I am not a doctor or a nurse or a parent like the rest of the contributors. I don’t know the difference between a tibula and a fibula - I haven’t even graduated high school yet. But I am a 16-year-old teenager who knows what people my age and younger think about hospitals and healthcare professionals. [...] 

Author: Dr. Trey Coffey 

What to do when you have to implement something so that you can research the outcome? How can you possibly dedicate blood, sweat, tears, and change management muscle if you do not feel at your core that it is a worthwhile effort? [...]