Improving team dynamics
Management in Medicine: shaping healthcare
Monday 1 March 2027 18:45 to 20:15Speakers: |
Oscar Mathew, Qualified Barrister, mediator and door tenant of Lamb Chambers in Middle Temple |
Location: |
Virtual Event |
About the event
When teams work well together, they inspire and bring the best out of others, shape a positive culture, and create conditions for safe, high-quality patient care. Yet even experienced teams can struggle to speak openly about sensitive and difficult issues. Operational bottlenecks, conflicting expectations and clinical disagreements can be hard to address and work through constructively. These dynamics can also affect relationships with the wider multidisciplinary team and other services across the organisation.
This session will provide some tools to help individuals navigate team dynamics more effectively. With an aim of supporting cohesion and greater collaboration, the session will focus on helping to:
- strengthen trust, openness, and mutual respect
- improve communication and reduce unhelpful work patterns and power dynamics
- clarify roles, expectations, and leadership responsibilities
- build a culture where challenge, feedback, and difficult conversations are handled constructively
- improve collaboration across the wider organisation
- create a more unified and well-led clinical service
About the speaker
Oscar Mathew is a qualified barrister, mediator and door tenant of Lamb Chambers in Middle Temple. He has a background in regulatory and public law, with a particular interest in medical law and ethics.
Prior to his work with The Medical Mediation Foundation, Oscar was a senior legal adviser to the GMC, overseeing judicial reviews and statutory appellate work in the High Court, and had conduct of the Supreme Court case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, one of the most significant medical law cases in the last 25 years.
His work for The Medical Mediation Foundation includes teaching, mediating and team facilitation for healthcare teams experiencing conflict.
Register
Registration will open in February.
About the Management in Medicine Programme
The Management in Medicine Programme was developed to foster management and leadership skills for health and care systems in early-career professionals. Attendance is open to medical students, doctors in training, postgraduate students and others with an interest in the interaction between healthcare professionals, systems and management.
For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, please email mim@gtc.ox.ac.uk
