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What it takes to run a hospital well: management systems, execution, turnarounds, partnerships and the decisions boards and chief executives cannot delegate.

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November 9, 2026

The Hospital You Build Before You Build It

A hospital is built twice: once on paper, once in concrete. After commissioning four hospitals, I have learnt that its operating life is largely written before the first brick is laid.

October 2, 2026

What a Hospital Turnaround Teaches

Turnarounds are not delivered by one leader. They are delivered by hundreds of people who decide, every day, to do the right thing for patients and for each other.

September 26, 2026

Your Title Is Not Your Leadership

Every organisation has outcomes nobody chose. If you lead the system, those outcomes are still your decisions, including the ones you never consciously made.

August 13, 2026

If I Don't Scribe It, I Feel I Lost the Meeting

Twenty years of notebooks taught me the discipline. AI has finally given that record a way to work for me. If a meeting matters enough to hold, it matters enough to keep.

April 14, 2026

The Healthcare Leader in the Eye of the Technology Storm

New solutions arrive weekly. Young staff push forward, senior staff push back, patients want digital and boards want a return. And you still have a hospital to run. The storm will not calm down; what can change is your relationship to it.

March 28, 2026

Before You Press “Enable AI”: What Every Healthcare Leader Needs to Know

AI is not the threat. Ungoverned AI is. In 2026 the question has moved from "should we adopt AI?" to "how do we govern it?", and that is exactly the right question.

May 11, 2025

What an International Academic Affiliation Should Deliver: Lessons from Cedars-Sinai

An international affiliation is worth only what it changes inside your own hospital. Visiting Cedars-Sinai with my team from The View Hospital showed what a strong academic partnership can deliver, well beyond the name on the door.

April 20, 2025

Small Teams, Big Thinking: Leadership and Obesity Science with Prof. Toni Vidal-Puig

Breakthroughs rarely come from the largest, best-resourced teams. They come from small, diverse teams trusted to take risks, and from leaders who build relationships long before a crisis needs them.

March 13, 2025

Building Resilient Healthcare Workplaces: A Conversation with the FT's Isabel Berwick

Healthcare is demanding, but it does not have to be draining. Resilient workplaces are built by leaders: through open communication, psychological safety and the example they set with their own hours.

November 10, 2024

Creating a Just Culture in Healthcare: A Conversation with Dr Simon Fleming

Bullying, harassment and incivility in healthcare are not isolated incidents. They are systemic, and they harm patients as well as staff. A just culture is built by changing long-standing power dynamics, not by publishing new rules.

July 10, 2024

Eight Books on My Leadership Shelf

Not every useful leadership book is about healthcare. These eight, read over several years, mostly in short breaks between meetings, have each changed something about how I lead.

March 3, 2024

Value-Based Care Starts With Your Own Data

Before a hospital can be paid for outcomes, it has to be able to measure them. In value-based care, discipline with your own data matters more than any single technology.

December 22, 2023

Healthcare Marketing Should Inform, Not Sell

Patients choose a hospital when they are anxious and uncertain. Marketing that educates and reassures, and is medically accurate, builds a kind of trust that advertising cannot buy.

September 11, 2023

Execution: Where Healthcare Strategy Succeeds or Fails

Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's Execution makes a point every hospital board should hear: a strategy that is not delivered is only a promise. Execution is a discipline, and it belongs to the leader.

August 5, 2023

Cybersecurity Is a Patient-Safety Issue

A cyberattack on a hospital does not only stop computers. It stops treatment. Boards should govern cyber risk with the same seriousness as clinical risk.

July 1, 2023

Healthcare for 1.8 Million Pilgrims: Lessons from the Hajj

The Hajj is one of the world's great logistical and public health operations. Its lessons in planning, partnership and technology reach far beyond Saudi Arabia.

June 23, 2023

Commissioning a Hospital Is a People Project

Buildings and equipment are the easy part of opening a hospital. Whether it opens safely, on time and ready to grow depends on leadership, and on one team working to one plan.

May 28, 2023

The EMR Is a Management Tool, Not Only a Clinical One

Most hospitals treat the electronic medical record as a tool for clinicians. Used properly, it is also the best planning and management resource the hospital owns.

May 23, 2023

The Daily Huddle Is a Management System

Thirty minutes every morning, with every department in one room. The daily leadership huddle is the simplest and most effective management tool a hospital has.

May 8, 2023

Future-Proofing the Health of Nations

Adoption matters more than invention, partnerships matter more than any single organisation, and a healthy environment is part of public health. Lessons from a panel at Dubai's Museum of the Future.

April 5, 2023

Possibility Unleashed: Lessons in Health System Change

Dr Marc Harrison's Possibility Unleashed is a physician executive's account of leading change at scale. Its lessons travel well beyond the system where they were learned.

March 25, 2023

Diabetes Is an Employer's Problem Too

In much of the Gulf, employers fund healthcare through mandatory insurance. That makes chronic disease such as diabetes as much their problem as the hospital's, and partnership the best answer.

December 2, 2022

A Culture of Recognition Saves Lives

Engaged staff deliver safer care, and recognition is one of the strongest drivers of engagement. Most of what works costs almost nothing.

October 30, 2022

“How Are You?” Caring for the People Who Care

Burnout among healthcare workers is a patient-safety risk, not only a personal one. It is managed best by leaders who ask a simple question and act on the answer.

September 28, 2022

Buildings Age, Experience Is Remembered

New hospitals compete on buildings and equipment. Both age quickly. What lasts is the experience a hospital creates for everyone it touches, and that starts with its own staff.