Table of contents

Brief reports

• Biggest shake-up in health and social care leadership in a generation to improve patient care: comment from report coauthor Dame Linda Pollard (5 July, 2022)

  Ben Claxton, Sophie Barlett
• Addressing the challenges restoring clinical services during the COVID-19 pandemic by harnessing the alignment of clinical and management leadership: an example from a large colorectal service (22 June, 2022)

  Henry Simon Tilney, Sally Vaughan, Timothy Ho
• Leadership experiences of elite football team physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study (21 July, 2022)

  Sean Carmody, Gurneet Brar, Andrew Massey, Craig Rosenbloom, Vincent Gouttebarge, Mike Davison
• Medical students as health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (9 August, 2022)

  Adam Boggon, Ashley Poole, Sarah Smith, Aine Burns, Paul Dilworth
• Clinical research nurse and midwife as an integral member of the Trial Management Group (TMG): much more than a resource to manage and recruit patients (9 September, 2022)

  Clare Pye, Linda Tinkler, Mostafa Metwally
• Closing the empathy gap towards equitable outcomes: gender equity in the medical workforce (8 September, 2022)

  Aleem Bharwani, Shannon M Ruzycki
• Leadership, teamwork and technology enabling the largest free and accessible event worldwide on COVID-19 management (7 September, 2022)

  Daniella Nunes Pereira, Milena Soriano Marcolino