Essential communication skills

Dr Mike Roddis

BSc MB ChB MBA FRCPath

Director, MJ Roddis Associates Ltd.

Mike, a former pathologist, has worked as a medical director in the NHS and in the independent healthcare sector. He now works with NHS trusts and others to help them improve the performance of doctors. In particular, he works with individuals to improve their interpersonal and professional skills, and with teams of clinicians who seek help to improve their performance. He is an experienced investigator of conduct and capability issues in consultants, works as a consultancy adviser to the Royal College of Pathologists and sits on the advisory board of CORESS (a confidential reporting system for surgery).

Dr Sarah Coope

MBChB MRCGP

MJ Roddis Associates Ltd.

Sarah qualified in 1998. She has a portfolio career comprising of salaried GP work, GP appraisals, and is the Named GP for Safeguarding Children for Hull CCG. Her passion is learning and teaching communication skills and having undertaken coaching and NLP training has found this invaluable in her work. Sarah coaches health professionals on all aspects of medical life including career planning, conflict management, stress/burnout and relationship issues. In addition to presenting courses for the MDU, she is regularly involved in facilitating leadership/management training days for the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery.

Dr Samantha Bell BSc MBBS MRCP MRCGP LLM

MDU medico-legal adviser

Dr Samantha Bell studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1992. After gaining MRCP she went on to train as a GP, gaining MRCGP in 2003. She obtained an LLM in Health Care Ethics and Law in 2015. She worked as a GP principal in Hertfordshire before joining the MDU as a medico-legal adviser in 2015.