Building collaborative leadership across health and care organisations

In many parts of the United Kingdom, NHS providers, commissioners, local authorities and third sector organisations are working, at a time of intense financial pressure, to re-design local health and care services. In some areas, new system-wide partnerships have been set up to develop and implement local sustainability and transformation plans (STPs), in others the focus is on developing a new care model (vanguard) for a defined population, and in a few areas loose alliances are being formed between local providers to create an accountable care organisation or accountable care system. In all these scenarios, senior clinical and managerial leaders need to consider how they shift from operating in a formally competitive system to a more collaborative one.

This is no easy task: reconfiguring and transforming the way health and care services are delivered, especially in an environment where responsibility still lies with individual organisations rather than local system leadership groups, is challenging. Leaders will need to adopt a more collaborative leadership style if these new ways of working are to succeed.

Who is it for?

This programme is for chief executives of NHS providers, chairs and chief operating officers of clinical commissioning groups, and experienced senior directors involved in planning and securing transformational change locally. This is an essential programme if you are a chief executive or senior director who really wants to maximise the opportunities created by the development of a new care model, accountable care system or local STP.