Blogs

Supporting reality to match the rhetoric: introducing the SAS six

This SAS Collective blog explains how the SAS six campaign is supporting SAS doctors to develop within their careers and become leaders and educators.

17 October 2024

How we should be supporting SAS doctors

To celebrate #SASWeek24, this blog by the deputy chair for JNC(SAS) management side, Derek Thomas, explains how we can support SAS in their ambitions.

17 October 2024

My journey as a SAS doctor with dyslexia

Dr Marion Norbrook, specialty doctor in sexual health, Kingston Hospital talks about her SAS career and how neurodiversity has shaped this.

17 October 2024

​My path to becoming ​a specialist doctor

Dr Mahesha Dabare, ​specialist in anaesthetics at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital describes her experience of being a specialist and the benefits.

15 October 2024

The importance of advocacy: introducing the SAS advocate role

Dr Rob Fleming describes the benefits of the SAS advocate role for the individual and organisation.

17 September 2024

Setting the silver standard with the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme

Jacqui Bunce tells us how NHS Lincolnshire ICB gained both their bronze and silver accreditation within a year.

7 June 2024

Partnership recruitment in Greater Manchester

Read this blog examining the socio-economic benefits of large scale and hyper-local recruitment in the Greater Manchester area.

22 May 2024

The LGBTQ+ staff experience gap

The growing LGBTQ+ staff experience gap is a recruitment and retention risk for the NHS, writes Dr Layla McCay.

17 May 2024

Supporting NHS staff with long COVID

This blog reflects on the importance of supporting healthcare workers with long COVID to stay in work and the resources available to employers.

26 April 2024

NHS staff experience: moving on up?

Steven Weeks reflects on what the 2023 NHS Staff Survey results tell us about staff experience across the service.

8 April 2024

How Reservists and their military leadership skills are valued by HNY ICB

Luke Clifford-Roper-Smith tells us how his military training has developed transferable skills that are valued by his NHS organisation.

15 March 2024

How Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is developing a healthcare science apprenticeship pipeline

This blog explores introducing a healthcare science apprentice pathway for audiologists at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

14 March 2024

Digging into the data to drive improvement

A blog ahead of the 2023 NHS Staff Survey results by John Drew, director of staff experience and engagement at NHS England.

4 March 2024

The importance of place and safe spaces

Peter Molyneux reflects on LGBT+ History Month, and the importance of networks in creating safe spaces.

28 February 2024

The King’s Fund and LGBTQ+ inclusion: 'Yes, and?'

In this LGBT+ History Month blog find out what The King’s Fund has been doing to support inclusion and to become a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

9 February 2024

Taking proactive action for disabled health learners

Learn how positive action can be used lawfully to overcome or minimise any disadvantage connected to a person’s disability. 

20 December 2023