Leading in a crisis: the power of transparency

"Leaders who promote and model transparent behaviours and instil a transparent culture in their organisations can use crises as learning and improvement opportunities." 

Leading in a crisis: the power of transparency
B Sadler, K Stewart
The Health Foundation
December 2015

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Place-based systems of care

"This paper argues that providers of services should establish place-based ‘systems of care’ in which they work together to improve health and care for the populations they serve. This means organisations collaborating to manage the common resources available to them."

Place-based systems of care: A way forward for the NHS in England
C Ham, H Alderwick
The King's Fund
November 2015

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Health and Care Quality Systems in practice: A guide for local leaders

"This publication is intended as a practical guide for people who have leadership and oversight responsibility for the quality of services in their communities."

Health and Care Quality Systems in practice: A guide for local leaders
Local Government Association, Centre for Public Scrutiny, Think Local Act Personal 
September 2015

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Ending the Crisis in NHS Leadership: a Plan for Renewal

"If leadership is to be strengthened and successful, then the task must be made more manageable, more attractive and more sustainable"

Ending the Crisis in NHS Leadership: a Plan for Renewal
HSJ Future of NHS Leadership
June 2015

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Five Year Forward View - The Success Regime

"The ‘Success Regime’ is aimed at providing increased support and direction to the most challenged systems in order to secure improvement in 3 main areas:

• short-term improvement against agreed quality, performance or financial metrics
• medium and longer-term transformation, including the application of new care models where applicable
• developing leadership capacity and capability across the health system"

Five Year Forward View - The Success Regime: A whole systems intervention
Monitor, NHS
June 2015

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Talent management: Developing leadership not just leaders

"Talent management is a set of integrated organisational workforce processes designed to attract, develop, motivate and retain productive, engaged employees. The goal of talent management is to create a high-performance, sustainable organisation that meets its strategic and operational goals and objectives."

Talent management: Developing leadership not just leaders
Sarah Massie
The King's Fund
June 2015

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Health and social care priorities for the Government

" it is essential that we move to a more empowering, bottom-up approach while at the same time holding health care leaders to account for the care their organisations deliver to patients and service users."

Health and social care priorities for the Government: 2015–2020
Nuffield Trust
June 2015

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Health Service Journal - Integration

"Integrated care has been a goal for the NHS almost since it was founded. Now that it is finally top of the agenda, can local and national leaders seize the opportunity to deliver it?"

Integration
Health Service Journal supplement
10 April 2015

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The practice of system leadership

"In this report, Nicholas Timmins draws on the stories of 10 senior leaders to identify the skills needed to work in this way. These leaders were selected because of their proven experience of delivering improvements in the NHS and related services without necessarily having formal authority over others. "

The practice of system leadership: Being comfortable with chaos
N Timmins
The King's Fund
May 2015

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London Leadership Academy: Providing the time and space for future success

"As a pan-London NHS leadership development organisation we have access to a wealth of health care leaders and leadership experience. This creates plenty of opportunities to bring the London leadership community together to learn new skills, create connections, build networks and deliver the best possible care to patients and service users."

Providing the time and space for future success
NHS London Leadership Academy
April 2015

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Leadership and leadership development in health care: The evidence base

"The summary describes key messages from the review in relation to leadership at different levels of analysis: it includes a description of the leadership task and the most effective leadership behaviours at individual, team, board and national levels."

Leadership and leadership development in health care: The evidence base
M West, K Armit, L Loewenthal, R Eckert, T West, A Lee
The King's Fund
February 2015

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Six building blocks for harnessing the creativity and enthusiasm of NHS staff

"There is now an overwhelming body of evidence to show that engaged staff really do deliver better health care. The NHS providers with high levels of staff engagement (as measured in the annual NHS Staff Survey) tend to have lower levels of patient mortality, make better use of resources and deliver stronger financial performance"

Staff engagement: Six building blocks for harnessing the creativity and enthusiasm of NHS staff
The King's Fund
February 2015

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Risk or reward?: The changing role of CCGs in general practice

"In our case study sites we found that the sustainability of clinical involvement in commissioning was at risk due to waning levels of GP leader engagement in CCGs, potential problems in the recruitment and retention of leaders, and significant pressures on GPs’ time and capacity."

Risk or reward?: The changing role of CCGs in general practice
R Robertson, S Ross, L Bennett, H Holder, J Gosling, N Curry
The King's Fund
January 2015

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Leadership and organizational change for implementation

"The present study provides support for the development and deployment of active strategies to improve EBP [evidence based practice] implementation in health and allied healthcare organizations."

Leadership and organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice implementation
GA Aarons, MG Ehrhart, LR Farahnak, MS Hurlburt
Implementation Science 2015, 10:11  doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0192-y

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Joining up health and social care personal budgets: Key points on implementation

"Joint health and care personal budgets offer a potential model for delivering integrated care from the bottom up, at the level of the individual person. This briefing outlines the key themes from a workshop for senior professionals on joining up personal budgets, held at the King’s Fund. It also sets out a series of practical approaches to implementation that might be considered by local
leaders as they develop their approaches to integrating personal budgets."

Joining up health and social care personal budgets: Key points on implementation
NHS Confederation Briefing
January 2015 Issue 280

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Organisational culture and post-merger integration in an academic health centre

"Our findings have important implications for the integration of health care
providers and the promotion of NHS/University partnerships that deserve further research. It
might examine staff engagement strategies and cultural interventions to manage cultural
diversity and expectations."

Organisational culture and post-merger integration in an academic health centre: a mixed-methods study
PV Ovseiko, K Melham, J Fowler, AM Buchan
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:25  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0673-3

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Leadership and organizational change for implementation

" Although leadership in general has been shown to support effective implementation, the LOCI [Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation] intervention highlights specific strategies that leaders can use to improve the climate for implementation in their teams."

Leadership and organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice implementation

GA Aarons, MG Ehrhart, LR Farahnak, MS Hurlburt
Implementation Science 2015, 10:11  doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0192-y

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Leadership academy programmes

The Leadership Academy provide a number of courses designed to develop better leadership for NHS employees at all levels of experience, many of which are free or fully funded. These includes programmes specifically designed for nurses and midwives, as well as those for clinicians.

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Leadership vacancies in the NHS

"Board-level vacancies have a negative impact on an organisation. They affect staff morale and engagement, cause strategic instability and waste human and financial resources."

Leadership vacancies in the NHS: What can be done about them?
A Janjua
The King's Fund
December 2014

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Exploring CQC’s well-led domain: How can boards ensure a positive organisational culture?

"The paper has been written as a practical guide for board members in strengthening leadership and culture and in preparing for CQC inspections."

Exploring CQC’s well-led domain: How can boards ensure a positive organisational culture?
K Steward
The King's Fund
November 2014

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