A Public Health Dynamo- The Refreshing New Voice of Medical Leadership.
Dr Dominique Allwood is Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners and Director of Public Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.A Consultant in Public Health Medicine by background, she has worked widely across healthcare in leadership, management and advisory roles for provider and commissioner organisations, academic institutions, national bodies, management consultancy, charities and think tanks.
She provides leadership and expertise on a range of areas including environmental sustainability, clinical engagement, quality improvement, improving equity and population health, anchor institutions and learning health systems.
She holds an MPH, is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, has undertaken a Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership and is an Associate Editor for BMJ Leader Journal and on the Board of The Patient Revolution. She recently completed an Executive MBA at Henley Business School.
“To be a good leader you should probably have some good management understanding, and to be a good manager you can’t just be focused on the resources, and the numbers, and moving people around, I think you do need to have leadership qualities.”
Watch the video, listen to the podcast, or link to the transcript in BMJ Leader
The Health Foundation Podcast from August 2022
A very nice article in The Guardian describing a Day in the Life when she was a Darzi Fellow
A link to Dominique on the Kings Fund website
Read the full conversation on BMJLeader. Here are some key quotations from the interview:
“I remember thinking there are things that don’t work very well in my clinical role but I don’t really know how to change them.”
“… what I’ve learned is that there are a number of different lenses to tackle a lot of the health and healthcare challenges. That’s what I’ve tried to do – to collect those experiences.”
“Consultancy is interesting. There’s a choice and intention about how much resource a public sector organization should be spending on management consultancy but often we have gaps in both knowledge and capacity that are filled very well through management consultancy.”
“I don’t think an MBA is essential for everyone, but it definitely helped me strengthen my understanding of how organizations operate, the environment in which they’re in, the internal things they can do to make themselves better in service of their employees, their customers, and their stakeholders.”
“To be a good leader you should probably have some good management understanding, and to be a good manager you can’t just be focused on the resources, and the numbers, and moving people around, I think you do need to have leadership qualities.”
“I’m really aware of how much pressure there is currently, particularly in healthcare, and I guess the ability to try and stand back and look at some of the problems in a slightly more strategic way, or to try and start to focus down, more in being more present for the individual things that you’re being able to do, is really important.”
“And the ability to think, to understand, the challenges you’re facing, the opportunities to go and look for new ideas, hear and learn from other people, share that learning, feels really important to me.”
