Topic: Organisational culture

Our work on NHS culture, compassionate and collective leadership and change management

Leadership development courses: Programmes to support you at all stages of your leadership journey

Our leadership development courses support leaders in health and care.

Caring to change: how compassionate leadership can stimulate innovation in health care

This paper looks at compassion as a core cultural value of the NHS and how compassionate leadership results in a working environment that encourages people to find new and improved ways of doing things.

A mixed bag of results from the NHS Staff Survey

Marcus Powell explores the NHS staff survey results and finds areas of excellence alongside areas for concern.

Our leadership offer

Organisational development: helping your organisation be fit for purpose, fit for the future

Unlike other consulting approaches, OD at The King’s Fund starts from the premise that the experts in addressing these issues are the people who face them every day.

The King's Fund Annual Conference 2017

Talking leadership: Mark Redhead on the Top Manager Programme

As we launch a new scheme for alumni of our Top Manager Programme, Mark Redhead talks to us about his experience of the programme and how he is applying what he learned to his work.

Learning from human guinea pigs: creating open, supportive organisational cultures

Alex Baylis looks at how far research ethics have come in 50 years and reminds us of the importance of creating organisational cultures that put patients first and support staff to do the right thing.

Transforming the NHS through second-order change

Matthew Lewis and Julia Fernando discuss what the barriers and enablers to transformational change are, and why this type of change is key to the future of the NHS.

Cascading Leadership programme

This free programme matches experienced, high-performing leaders in the voluntary and community sector with others in the sector to share their knowledge and provide peer support.

New £250,000 leadership programme for charities launched

The King’s Fund, Comic Relief, and the Big Lottery Fund have opened the application process for a unique support programme enabling charity leaders to help each other through sharing expertise and developing skills.

Women and leadership (still) more to do

Susie Perks-Baker asks why there are still so few women in senior-level positions and explores ideas that could promote difference and diversity in the NHS.

Talking leadership: Mark Doughty on delivering a vision of real collaboration

Mark Doughty explains why it's critical that there is a new relationship between those in the health care system and patients and local communities.

Listening to patients, carers, staff and communities... do we care enough?

Durka Dougall challenges NHS leaders to work more closely with patients, carers and staff in order to understand what's important to them and make the tough decisions together.

Women and leadership reading list

A selected list of references held by The King's Fund library.

Cascading Leadership: a new model to support leadership in the voluntary and community sector

We outline the importance of investing in leadership in the voluntary and community sector, sharing the results of an external evaluation of the Cascading Leadership programme.

Is there too much bureaucracy in the NHS? big election questions

Ahead of the general election, we explore whether there is too much bureaucracy in the NHS.

Kate Allatt: The reality of collaboration

Kate Allatt gives her perspective on building effective partnerships between health care professionals and patients.

Leading across the health and care system: lessons from experience

This paper offers those who are leading new systems of care some guidance on how to address the challenges they face. It draws on the Fund’s work on the development of new care models, sustainability and transformation plans, and accountable care organisations.

Michael West: Collaborative and compassionate leadership

Professor Michael West explores the links between compassionate leadership and innovation and discusses the importance of collaboration across boundaries in health and care.

Organising care at the NHS front line

Quality improvement is best led not by regulators but by those who care for patients, say Chris Ham and Don Berwick

Accepting the unacceptable? A physician’s perspective on frontline care

Ahead of the publication of our report, Organising care at the NHS front line, Elin Roddy shares her experience of providing care for acutely ill medical patients.

Supporting leaders to deliver transformational change: Nicola Walsh on our work with communities

How can leaders collaborate to deliver sustainability and transformation plans and implement new care models? Nicola Walsh discusses our work supporting leaders to develop new ways of working.

Talking leadership: Allison Trimble on building leaders’ authority

Allison Trimble discusses the challenges leaders in health and care face when they begin to grow their influence, and how they can overcome them.

Talking leadership: Marcus Powell on our seventh annual leadership and management summit

Fifteen months on from joining The King’s Fund, Marcus Powell, Director of Leadership and Organisational Development, reflects on the challenges facing leaders across health and care.

Staff engagement and wellbeing reading list

A selected list of references held by The King's Fund library.

Workforce and skills: Our work on staffing and training across the NHS, health and care

Clinical leadership: Our work on the role of clinicians leading change in their organisations