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The Health Foundation submission to The King's Fund Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS
Date: 10 December 2010
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Introduction
In this submission, the Health Foundation sets out:
- its leadership and quality improvement work, and learning from this work
- challenges it sees the NHS facing in terms of management and leadership
- what it would like to see happen with regards to leadership in the NHS.
The key finding of the Heath Foundation’s work around leadership across the UK shows that leadership engagement in quality is vital from the frontline to boardroom level. It also identifies the main leadership skills that are required for success.
What the Health Foundation would like to see
As the role of leaders and managers in the NHS in England will change greatly as a result of the shifts that are happening in the organisation, the issues of how to keep quality of central importance, and how to attract the right leaders, need to be debated.
Within this context, the Health Foundation states that it would like to see:
- continued recognition that delivering high quality care is the responsibility of leaders at every level
- leadership development which reflects the need to develop leaders’ personal, relational and contextual skills alongside their technical skills for quality improvement
- greater knowledge at board level (executive and non-executive) of quality improvement approaches
- organisations continuing to take responsibility for developing leadership for improving quality within their organisations
- the sector come together to take responsibility for organising the means to continue to raises standards in leadership and management.
