Leadership and management

Comment & analysis

• The management of the NHS in England

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

• The wrong time for a radical reduction in NHS management? | Chris Naylor

  Chris Naylor considers the potential loss of managerial talent as new designs for the NHS Commissioning Board are revealed.

• Developing leadership by managing unconscious behaviour

  Improving leadership within an organisation through identifying our subconscious behaviour can galvanise a workforce and deliver better performance, write Nicholas Bradbury and Barbara Moyes. (Article, 5 Jan 2012)

• The NHS in England in 2012

  Three issues have dominated debate about health policy in England during 2011: the Health and Social Care Bill, performance of the NHS and the quality of patient care. But what health policy issues will be high on the agenda during 2012? (Article, 21 Dec 2011)

• Three challenges facing clinical commissioning groups

  Chris Ham asks what can clinical commissioning groups learn from medical practices in California. (Blog, Chris Ham, 12 Dec 2011)

• Medical engagement in leadership – no longer an optional extra

  John Clark explains why doctors must become more engaged in NHS leadership as he introduces our new review into leadership. (Blog, 8 Dec 2011)

• Is good NHS management a waste of money?

  Chris Ham's blog about the importance of good management and leadership in the NHS. (Blog, 29 Nov 2011)

• We need to talk about frail older patients: CQC report

  Drawing on experience from our Point of Care programme, Jocelyn Cornwell explores the options to improving the poor results on care shown in the CQC report. (Blog, Jocelyn Cornwell, 20 Oct 2011)

• No more heroes: A lesson for our future leaders?

  NHS leaders, whether commissioners or providers, have to influence others as much as they lead heroically – a model requiring additional, if not entirely different, skills. (Blog, Kate Lobley, 24 May 2011)

• The King’s Fund Commission urges politicians to value the role of management in the NHS

  The report from the Commission into Leadership and Management in the NHS emphasises the crucial role excellent general and clinical managers can play in delivering the productivity improvements and service transformation that the NHS requires. (Press releases, 18 May 2011)

• The King's Fund responds to the Prime Minister's speech on the NHS

  The key challenge the health reforms must address is the aging population and increasing numbers of people with long-term conditions, says Chris Ham after the Prime Minister's speech. (Statement, 16 May 2011)

• Are health and wellbeing boards part of the solution?

  One aspect of the Health and Social Care Bill that has attracted remarkably little controversy is the proposal for health and wellbeing boards. But are they really part of the solution? (Blog, Richard Humphries, 5 May 2011)

• Achieving high-quality care at manageable costs: a lesson for GP consortia

  Lessons from the States are often relegated to the ‘too different to be useful’ box, but on closer inspection there are many similarities between American medical groups and the proposed GP consortia. (Blog, Paul Zollinger-Read, 15 Apr 2011)

• Making the transition – a time of risk or opportunity?

  How well will the transitional governance arrangements work at the local level? The King’s Fund’s Board Leadership Programme recently encouraged board non-executive directors (NEDs) to invite their GP colleagues from pathfinder consortia to a discussion on GP commissioning. (Blog, Katy Steward, 11 Apr 2011)

• Commissioning for the future: will fact follow fiction?

  How closely does the Health Select Committee's report mirror a simulation exercise run by NHS Lincolnshire to illustrate commissioning NHS health services in 2013/14? (Blog, Natasha Curry, 8 Apr 2011)

• The King's Fund's response to the announcement of a two month listening exercise on the government's health reforms

• A chance to go back to basics on health and social care reform?

  The government’s decision to consult with stakeholders during this pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill through parliament creates an opportunity to revisit the problems the Bill is intended to address. (Blog, Chris Ham, 6 Apr 2011)

• Education, integration and involvement: three key steps to quality improvement

  Taking time out from the debate about NHS reform, I visited Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, to find out what makes it one of the most admired health care systems in the US, and to discover what the NHS could learn from this organisation. (Blog, Chris Ham, 03 Mar 2011)

• Mid Staffs: The story of a hospital that lost its way

  Stephen Moss, Chair of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust opened The Point of Care conference this week by talking about the lessons he had learnt from the ‘story of a hospital that lost its way'. (Blog, Joanna Goodrich, 14 Dec 2010)

• Lessons from Seattle: dealing with the challenge ahead

  Liz Theibe, Acting Director of Leadership at The King's Fund, discusses the Seattle Study Tour and notes the lessons we should be learning about commissioning and management in the UK. (Blog, Liz Thiebe, 22 Nov 2010)