Dr MIKE RODDIS

BSc MB ChB MBA FRCPath

Mike qualified as a doctor in 1978 from Manchester University and became a consultant chemical pathologist in 1985 at Barnet and Edgware hospitals. He became clinical director in 1988, gaining his MBA in 1990. In 1994 he moved to the Homerton hospital as clinical director for surgery and clinical support services and became medical director of The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex in 1996. He left the NHS in 2002 to become an independent medical management consultant.

Experience:

NHS board executive director:

Medical director of an acute hospital trust for 6 years; including strategy development, policy formulation and several periods as acting chief executive, with extensive experience in medical performance management, service redesign and clinical risk management.

Medical Management Consultant:

Performance management

• Aspects of Performance Management. A development programme based on self learning intended to help managers confront performance issues on a daily basis based on principles of accountability.
• Working with a team of senior doctors to prepare them for transfer to a new employer, and introduce the concept of management.
• Individual coaching to assist in return to practice post exclusion
• Dealing with Difficult Doctors. A series of seminars for senior medical and HR managers on the root causes of difficult behaviour and techniques to overcome them.
• Consultant contract implementation at several Foundation Trusts including two major London teaching trusts
• Individual senior medical coaching, development and career counselling
• Job plan review, mediation and mentoring of senior medical managers
• Appraisal system development and review

Clinical service review

• He has recently reviewed the board and clinical governance arrangements for a hospital and social care partnership trust
• He has undertaken major reviews of pathology service provision for several Foundation Trusts
• He has run demand management projects for teaching PCTs
• He has researched and developed new service models for district nursing provision and LTC management for several London PCTs
• He has worked with a large Foundation Trust in Yorkshire to develop an analysis of their strategic options for the future, the basis for their new ways of working.

Recent publications include articles on dealing with difficult doctors, senior medical career development, image management and the need for medical management skills in medical consultants for the Health Service Journal and the BMJ group.

Dr EMMA SEDGWICK

MBBS BSc MRCPsych DCH MBA NLP Coach

Emma qualified from the London Hospital in the early 1990’s. She was interested in a career in child and adolescent psychiatry and spent a year in paediatrics before completing her general psychiatric training on the Guy’s rotation in South East London. She began her child and adolescent psychiatry SpR training at St Mary’s in North West London.

After experiencing a traumatic incident with a psychiatric patient, Emma left medicine and gained employment with the Medical Defence Union. For eight years Emma was a medico-legal adviser and clinical risk manager at the MDU. As a medico-legal adviser Emma was responsible for assisting doctors through a number of processes, including inquests, disciplinary hearings, GMC hearings, criminal investigations and assessments by the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS). Whilst at the MDU she completed an MBA at Henley Management College. At the MDU, Emma worked on many projects including medico-legal and elective study projects for medical students and junior doctors, workshop design and delivery and risk assessment in general practices. She also regularly gave interviews with the press, including live radio and TV.

Due to her clinical and management experience, she became interested in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and became a certified NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner. She achieved Certified NLP European Coach status after training with Ian McDermott, recognised as one of the best coach trainers in the UK.

Emma is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is currently seeking the first level of accreditation. As a member of the ICF she has signed up to their code of ethics and conduct. Emma has own her coach, so believes in coaching and knows it works. Emma has a supervisor for all her coaching work.

She has recently undertaken a career coaching course with Career Counselling Services, which provides her with a licence to use a number of career planning exercises. She began a Postgraduate Certificate in managing medical careers in January 2008, the first course of its kind in the UK.