How can the health and care system support staff to recover from the Covid-19 crisis? Michael West and Suzie Bailey discuss the building blocks for recovery – and how the system then moves to renewal.

Suzie Bailey and Michael West examine why compassionate leadership matters now, in a time of global crisis, more than ever before and how leaders can best support those health workers and carers...

Michael West, senior fellow at The King’s Fund, reflects on psychological safety, compassionate leadership and inclusivity in teams.

The demands of the Covid-19 pandemic have led to new ways of working for health and social care staff. Michael West and Suzie Bailey consider what this period can teach us about improving staff...

At this free online event, we discussed the changes needed to better support nurses and midwives so that they can flourish and thrive in their work.

With high levels of staff turnover, sickness absence and presenteeism prevalent in the NHS, we need to significantly improve the working environments for staff. But how? Michael West reflects on the...

The resignation of New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has prompted a renewed focus on burnout. Madeleine Finlay speaks to cognitive scientist Professor Laurie Santos about its symptoms, causes, and the...

At this free online event, we discussed the changes needed to better support nurses and midwives so that they can flourish and thrive in their work.

Compassionate leadership is needed now more than ever in the NHS, but there is a reluctance to put it into practice. Michael West and Suzie Bailey dispel five common myths surrounding compassionate...

Michael West and Suzie Bailey consider the disproportionate toll Covid-19 is taking on health and care staff from ethnic minority backgrounds and what it requires from us all to address this.

Helen McKenna sits down with Suzie Bailey and Professor Michael West to explore the results of the 2020 NHS Staff Survey and discuss how the NHS can create an inclusive, compassionate, and supportive...

Research shows that compassionate leadership has wide-ranging benefits for both staff and organisations. Learn more in this explainer.

The pandemic has raised NHS and care staff's stress and sickness levels to such an extent that a whole new approach to leadership is now required.

Past merger and acquisition research has reported mixed findings on the impact of mergers on workforces. To address these ambiguities and advance merger research at the organizational level of...

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This paper looks at compassion as a core cultural value of the NHS and how compassionate leadership encourages people to find new and improved ways of doing things.

At this free online event, we discussed the changes needed to better support nurses and midwives so that they can flourish and thrive in their work.

'Forty years ago, when I was a junior doctor, I decided to speak up about a consultant’s malpractice. I went into a senior clinician’s office, explained what I had seen and was then told in no...

A broad coalition of health and care organisations have come together to speak with one voice about the need to prioritise the emotional and physical wellbeing of health and care staff.

Reports from Italy, and more recently from the U.S. show the strain the healthcare system is under during this pandemic. We know that staff will step up in an emergency, but this isn’t a fire or a b

Michael West looks at what the results of the latest NHS Staff Survey tell us about staff experiences of autonomy, collaboration and competence and considers the importance of meeting these needs.

To be alone and to be lonely are not the same thing

As part of the Creating a Compassionate World interview series, Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, President of the Compassionate Mind Foundation (compassionatemind...

#CompassionNow A global gathering for compassion. Free and online Sat 15th April 9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm BST | 6pm SAST Join us for this half-day of inspiration and action as, together with compassion...

Michael West, Habib Naqvi and Yvonne Coghill outline measures to implement the values of compassion and inclusion across the whole of the NHS

How is Covid-19 repeating patterns of existing health inequalities? What factors are driving the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on the health of ethnic minority populations?

In line with the Compassionate Leadership Spotlight sessions, a series of podcasts are to be released exploring each principle in turn. This first episode features Professor Michael West and explores...

What can be done to help address the health and care workforce crisis? Suzie Bailey and Michael West outline seven key actions leaders can take.

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LSBU Back to Better May 2020 FINDownload You can contribute your experience and views by taking part in the survey here Alongside the frustrations, difficulties and challenges of the pandemic, many…

On behalf of the BAME Network with support from Malcolm McCann, Executive Director and Jo Debenham, Equality Diversity Lead, we are delighted to invite you to our Compassionate Leadership Conference....

Over the course of the last year, we have witnessed expressions of anger, fear, pitilessness and even hatred both predictably and unexpectedly. The British vote to leave the EU and US voters’...