Developing leaders to improve patient care

Jonathan Gray (right), Director of Healthcare Improvement at the Wales Centre for Health, was a Leadership Fellow

This statement explains what we have learnt about leadership through our extensive leadership programmes.

The Health Foundation believes that encouraging better leadership from clinicians and managers is one of the most important ways to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK.

Developing leaders to improve patient care explains why we believe that:

• leaders are key to improving patient care
• leaders need emotional intelligence
• leaders should learn in multidisciplinary teams
• leaders are required throughout an organisation
• leaders need support from their colleagues and their organisation
• careful recruitment to leadership schemes is important. 

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