Unconscious bias and its effect on health care leadership

Organisational culture

The need to build organisational cultures in which there is high quality, ever improving compassionate care focused on the needs of patients is now an indisputable and understandable refrain of health policy. But, experience has demonstrated time and again that achieving change takes considerable time, energy, passion and conviction.

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