Creating a culture of true leadership

Recent months have brought with them the 1-year anniversaries of several tragedies that hit the UK last year—from the Westminster attack to the Manchester Arena bombing (p. 300), and the London Bridge terror attack, to the Grenfell Tower Fire.

Unfortunately, events like these are becoming more commonplace than any of us might like to admit, and responding to them has got to affect you. In fact, beyond these major incidents, is the cumulative effect of the less dramatic (but impactful) incidents that make up your day's work, as Sasha Johnston points out on p. 309. I can imagine though that it might be difficult to focus on those effects, when you need to keep putting one foot in front of the other, both in terms of your professional and personal life. It's understandable why you might feel you've got to ‘just get on with it’, especially as it's ‘part of the job’—but this would be doing yourself and the paramedic profession a grave injustice.