Topic: Leadership

Healthcare leaders need to be equipped with a range of skills and competencies to help them meet the wide-ranging challenges facing them today. Our distinctive range of leadership schemes offer personalised coaching and development to individuals and are work-focused to ensure they are relevant to the practical problems participants face on a daily basis.

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Case studies

  • Changing prescribing behaviour in Shropshire

    Tracy Savage is a Health Foundation Leadership Fellow who uses NICE guidance to advise GPs in Shropshire on appropriate prescribing practice.

  • Redesigning ambulance services

    Our Leadership Fellows scheme aims to develop individuals who have the potential to become the future leaders of healthcare. Alison Walker has been working on projects to redesign Yorkshire ambulance services to deliver faster and higher quality care for patients.

  • Reducing waiting times for community-based physiotherapy

    Treatment waiting times remain a big issue for the NHS. Mary Ross is a Leaders for Change award holder who has been working to reduce the time people wait for treatment at Sandwell Primary Care Trust.

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Publications

  • Leading lights

    Good leadership is widely recognised as being central to the delivery of effective healthcare, yet surprisingly little has been done to develop effective approaches to leadership development for people in mid career – the leaders of tomorrow – in the NHS.

  • Better team working for a safer hospital

    One in ten patients admitted to hospitals in developed countries suffer harm as a result of medical errors. This briefing looks at how The Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative has improved patient safety using the concept of shared leadership.

  • A Critical Review of Leadership Interventions Aimed at People from BME Groups

    This paper summarises a research project carried out to critically review different strategies for increasing the diversity of the workforce at senior levels in the NHS. It also considers whether there is a viable business case for increasing the number of BME staff in leadership positions in the health service.

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Current activities

  • Health Foundation Leadership Fellows

    A tailored programme of personal and professional development to individuals who have the potential to make an outstanding contribution to improving the quality of care.

  • Harkness/Health Foundation Fellowships

    The aim of the Harkness/Health Foundation fellowship is to encourage and support healthcare practitioners from managerial and clinical backgrounds to participate in the Harkness Fellowship programme, run by The Commonwealth Fund of New York.

  • Shared Leadership for Change (BME)

    Shared Leadership for Change – Improving the Quality of Healthcare for BME Groups is a leadership development scheme for teams of healthcare professionals working to improve the quality of healthcare for black and minority ethnic (BME) groups

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Features

  • Leading from the front

    The NHS is characterised by its complexity and reliance on large numbers of people to achieve aims that span from an individual patient to a whole population. Tony Bell discusses the role of leadership.

  • Looking for trouble!

    Chief Executive Stephen Ramsden describes the work of the trust with the Safer Patients’ Initiative, to Jenny Kowalczuk, News and Features Editor, www.saferhealthcare.org.uk

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