This document published by the NHS Commissioning Board outlines the role that Clinical Senates will play in providing strategic clinical advice and leadership across a broad geographical area to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), health and wellbeing boards (HWB) and the NHS Commissioning Board from April 2013. Read more »
A series of learning resources have been launched to support the establishment of well-functioning health and wellbeing boards. Read more »
This report shares findings from a South West study into the factors that achieved real change and improvement for people living with dementia, their carers and families. Read more »
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plan for a small number of strategic clinical networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions, including people with dementia. Read more »
A new series of guides giving practical advice to Clinical Commissioning Groups about the value of patient and public engagement has been published by NHS Networks. Read more »
This interactive day enabled participants to explore how to build resilience by learning from when times are hard, and how to build sustainability by building from the best of what we have. Read more »
This report explores what difference leadership development makes, and how it can have impact on service and quality improvement. Read more »
This briefing paper shares the key findings from a study of seven trusts which achieved high Medical Engagement Scale (MES) scores from an initial survey involving 30 trusts in England. Read more »
Using feedback from a number of experienced NHS leaders, Chris Roebuck reviews past NHS leadership development and identifies leadership development options from the commercial sector that would benefit the NHS. Read more »
Kim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. The author suggests that a traditional conception of leadership, in which leadership… Read more »
This paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
This paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »
This report explores whether the model, prevalent in public service over recent years, of the ‘hero’ chief executive still hold sway? Read more »
This briefing paper shows the scale and scope of the NHS management workforce and how it has changed or is changing and identifies particular functional or occupational groups within the management workforce. Read more »
At least another 60 clinical fellows will be created this year as part of the National Leadership Council’s drive to develop the next generation of leaders in many different clinical settings so that they can take a more central role in improving services for patients. Read more »
This paper is structured to reflect the Warwick 6 C Leadership Framework, looking at: concepts, contexts, characteristics, challenges, capabilities and consequences and emphasising that these elements are inter-connected and inter-active. Read more »
This article advocates that Doctors’ training must tackle the need for skills in quality improvement and leadership. The authors assert that rather than seeing quality improvement as being separate from clinical audit, we must look at quality improvement as the… Read more »
This article describes an innovative programme in leadership skills provided in the final year of postgraduate medical training. Read more »
This issue of the South West Dementia Partnership bulletin focusses on the South West Hospital Standards in Dementia Care, published in February 2011. Read more »
As the government’s healthcare reforms begin to take shape, the authour of this article stresses the importance of good leadership skills in improving productivity, quality and efficiency. Read more »