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Medical leadership is vital for quality patient care

30 Apr 2013
Chris Ham
Doctors should be encouraged to enter into leadership roles. It is essential for raising the standard of patient care, writes Chris Ham.

The demands of public service leadership

6 Jun 2012
Richard Humphries
Richard Humphries looks at the importance of cultivating a culture of strong engagement with staff, patients and partners.

Meeting the productivity challenge

1 Jun 2012
John Appleby, Nicola Hartley
John Appleby and Nicola Hartley discuss how the NHS can respond to the productivity challenge in our exclusive interview from Insight magazine.

A new style of leadership for the NHS

29 May 2012
Chris Ham
Chris Ham summarises issues discussed at the Leadership and Management Summit and explores the challenges NHS faces.

It is within leaders’ power to make things better

24 May 2012
Chris Ham
Relatively simple changes in leadership practice can make a big difference to staff engagement and patient experience.

Why today's NHS leaders need to be more engaging

16 May 2012
John Clark, Nicola Hartley
The case for a more distributed and engaging style of leadership is compelling and needs to be the norm now more than ever before.

The NHS bill is wrong to target managers for cuts

22 Feb 2012
Chris Ham
Chris Ham argues that the health service must retain experienced leaders able to work with doctors, nurses and other clinicians to provide the best possible care.

Why medical leaders need to be proactive in driving culture change

22 Feb 2012
Vijaya Nath, John Clark
Vijaya Nath and John Clark discuss the importance of doctors taking on leadership if improvements in access, quality, safety and productivity are to be realised.

The management of the NHS in England

8 Feb 2012
Chris Ham
Impassioned discussion about competition and new providers of care may make debate about managers unfashionable, but they are essential in a well run health service.

A whole system approach to clinical commissioning

1 Feb 2012
GPs in Hertfordshire
We talked to some GPs about the challenges of leading change and our whole systems approach to help with clinical commissioning.

Macmillan Cancer Support: preparing for change

1 Feb 2012
Judy Taylor, Juliet Bouverie
We hear from Macmillan Cancer Support leaders and managers about the benefits of their commissioned programme from The King's Fund.

Developing leadership by managing unconscious behaviour

11 Jan 2012
Nicholas Bradbury, Barbara Moyes
Improving leadership within an organisation through identifying our subconscious behaviour can galvanise a workforce and deliver better performance, write Nicholas Bradbury and Barbara Moyes.

Medical Leadership: from the dark side to centre stage

1 Sep 2011
Chris Ham, John Clark, Peter Spurgeon
A new book co-written by Chris Ham, John Clark and Peter Spurgeon outlines the different roles of medical leaders and analyses the relationship between medical engagement and organisational performance.

Supporting effective governance: board leadership programme

30 Aug 2011
Board leadership programme delegates
We talk to some non-executive directors on our Board leadership programme about ensuring effective governance during the NHS reforms.

Developing effective leadership in the NHS to maximise the quality of patient care

18 May 2011
Chris Roebuck
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.

Followership in the NHS

18 May 2011
Keith Grint, Claire Holt
Grint's and Holt's 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.

Leadership in context: Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practice

18 May 2011
Kim Turnbull James
Kim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development - not specifically from the health case sector - and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas.

Recent trends in leadership: Thinking and action in the public and voluntary service sectors

18 May 2011
Jean Hartley, John Benington
This supporting paper reviews recent developments in leadership, using the Warwick 6 C Leadership Framework to organise the evidence.

The NHS management workforce

18 May 2011
Kieran Walshe, Liz Smith
Using data from the Binley's Database of NHS Management, this paper analyses the NHS management workforce.

The roles of leaders in high-performing health care systems

18 May 2011
G. Ross Baker
This paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as 'high-performing', using cross-case methods to identify key factors linked to their success, examining leadership strategies, organisational processes and investments in care improvements.

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