Delivering a collective leadership strategy for healthcare

Organisational culture

Posted:21 May 2014
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Michael West
Regina Eckhart
David Altman
Bill Pasmore

A sustainable leadership culture is a necessary condition for delivering safe, integrated and compassionate care within budget. The second of our outputs in partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership shows how collective leadership can be implemented to deliver sustainable culture change and improvements in patient care.

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