All articles by Nadeem Moghal
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Has the growth in medical consultants outstripped need?
The specialty reports reference international benchmarking data to argue the need for more of everyone, illustrates Dr Nadeem Moghal
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Incidents of racial prejudice should be treated as seriously as drug errors
To normalise EDI and make it everyone’s responsibility will involve enabling reporting of EDI incidents, investigating it, taking action, and learning from it, writes Dr Nadeem Moghal
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‘They’re not going to offer us anything good first’ - the reasons for covid hesitancy in black communities
The roots of the black vaccine hesitancy lie in the mistrust of authority and state institutions, starting with the British slave trade policy just over 400 years ago, argues Dr Nadeem Moghal
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The GP locum ‘feeding-frenzy’ that is crippling general practice
Reliance on GP locums must force a rethink on the future workforce to create a positive opportunity to transform general practice, writes Nadeem Moghal
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Defining the professional NHS manager
Once NHS managers are framed properly as a profession, the doctor, the regulator, the media and the politician might have less excuse to target them. By
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Sex, lies and the ‘intentionally difficult doctor’
To regulate unprofessional conduct of healthcare professionals, a governance framework that defines and measures medical professionalism using reliable data is needed, suggests Nadeem Moghal
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Overseas doctors are often unloved, weary workhorses, but it does not need to be that way
Nadeem Moghal proposes a strategy on how to make overseas doctors come, stay and contribute to the NHS
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Chief executives need to get “noisy” on racism
Nadeem Moghal sets out the actions that can be taken by NHS leadership to enhance equality
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When is a saving not a saving?
NHS bodies and management consultancies often resort to false accounting and use misleading language to describe finances in order to keep the show running, notes Nadeem Moghal
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The NHS should build overseas 'workforce factories'
To meet the widening healthcare workforce gap, Dr Nadeem Moghal suggests a new bold and ethical model of education that seeks to build local capability in the low and middle income countries from where the UK sources healthcare workers
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Hancock's obsession with 'shiny' tech is 'blinding' us to the NHS' real needs
Nadeem Moghal on the lack of some basic technologies needed in every hospital in the NHS that accelerate the flow and quality of information, enabling timely responsive care
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Job planning is vital – without it, there is no team
If job planning is done well, the prize is a real team that works measurably smarter, making cost effective use of resources from programmed activities, to CT scans, beds and more. By Nadeem Moghal
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Medical appraisal and revalidation – a pretence that is reassurance, not assurance
The GMC’s current appraisal system fails to provide assurance that a doctor remains capable of maintaining safe and effective practice because it is not backed by objective data, says Nadeem Moghal
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GIRFT allows poorly performing doctors 'to hide behind the team'
Compliance to Getting It Right First Time, is the NHS’ latest best chance of removing avoidable variation. However, it can also disguise the impact made by individual clincians. By Nadeem Moghal
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The NHS's strategy on overseas workers is a signal of desperation
Nadeem Moghal on why he is against Health Education England’s “earn, learn and return” strategy
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HSJ Knowledge
Make or break: How George Eliot secured a future for its paediatric service
Redesign turned it around
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Exploring the US physician assistant workforce model: a contribution to QIPP
Workforce planning in the UK is becoming more an art than a science as a multitude of factors
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Blogs
PbR: A target by any other name...
PbR as an abbreviation now lends itself to a much clearer redefinition for the providers of healthcare services in NHS England – ‘Patients bring Revenue’.
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Have your say on the NHS - 'an election in less than a year'
The BBC news web page has a link to ‘have your say on the NHS’ this week; the NHS is back in the news as a political football.I don’t intend to add more to what has already been said by many on the BBC site. It is worth scanning through ...
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Retiring leadership
As a senior clinician approaches retirement, colleagues arrange little or even large gatherings to mark the occasion.