Dean's Grand Rounds - From Shame to Strength: Educating Doctors About Investigations, Restoring Identity, and Reforming the System
Free Webinar - Thursday 20 November 2025, 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Overview
Complaints and investigation processes are central to clinical governance, yet they are frequently experienced by doctors as punitive, isolating, and psychologically damaging, especially when prolonged, opaque, or poorly managed. This webinar will explore the unintended consequences of such investigations on doctors' wellbeing, professional identity, and patient care. Drawing on lived experience, empirical research, and Quality Improvement (QI) frameworks, the session will educate clinicians on navigating these processes, propose structural reforms, and offer tools for personal and professional resilience.
Programme and speakers
- Welcome - Prof. Subodh Dave, Dean of 萝莉视频, and Dr Deepa Krishnan, Dean's Grand Rounds Lead
- Introduction - Dr Swapna Kongara (Chair)
- From scrutiny to survival: A doctor's journey through investigation and call for change -?Doctor working in psychiatry, with lived experience
- Shame, identity, and system harm: What the evidence tells us? -?Dr Rachel Gibbons
- Embedding compassion and fairness in NHS investigations: A quality improvement approach?-Ms Uma Krishnamoorthy
Slides and resources
Experiences and Support Needs of Psychiatrists Under Investigation? - Dr Rachel Gibbons, Medical Psychotherapist, Vice-Chair RCPsych Psychotherapy Faculty?
- Embedding Compassion and Fairness in NHS Investigations ?A Quality Improvement Approach - Dr Uma Krishnamoorthy MBA MRCOG MBBS?, Deputy Medical Director, System Improvement and Professional Standards, NHS 萝莉视频 North- West Region?, Consultant Gynecologist and Associate Medical Director, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust?