Management Thought Leadership Insights

The issue of leadership and management  across health and social  care has  been the subject of a number of landmark reports, over  past decades. The Griffiths Management Inquiry carried out by Sir Roy Griffiths, the then CEO of Sainsbury in 1983, was followed  up by The Executive Years of The NHS (Edward B;Fall, M) , published by the Nuffield Trust  in 2005. These were  followed by Leadership and Engagement for Improvement in the NHS , by the Kings Fund (Prof Chris Ham) in 2012, and then the Lord Rose, “Better Leadership for Tomorrow: NHS Leadership review, published by the Dept of Health and Social Care in 2015. Co-incidentally,  the Health Foundation published a briefing paper  based on their research study “Strengthening  NHS Management and leadership,”in February ,2022.

And then in 2021, the Secretary of State asked General Sir Gordon Messenger  and Dame Lynda Pollard , then Chair of Leeds NHS Trust to carry out a review. The report –The Health and Social Care Reiew: Leadership for a Collaborative and Inclusive Future, was published in June 2022.The seven recommendations have been accepted in full by the Govt and when implemented will  potentially  make  a major impact on leadership and management development across health and social care services via:

 General Sir Gordon commented that “I have always held our health and social care workforce in the highest regard, yet my respect and admiration has deepened through witnessing their selflessness, professionalism and resilience first-hand.”

“We have consequently focused our findings on areas which improve awareness of the impact that good leadership can have, and which instil it as an instinctive characteristic in everyone, not just those with the word in their job title.”

 As is obvious, so much has been written  and talked about leadership and yet we still see individuals and people in the workplace crying out for more  effective  leadership practices. So “how does one lead better?” How about starting with you, irrespective of your leadership status by reflecting on the kind of person you are?  And how about starting with doing the simple things that you can do that needs no one  permission, such as being kind, truthful, respectful, reliable, authentic, decent,  etc. And then learning from your role models, the people you respect, value and whose behaviour you feel you can develop and become a better person, team member,  clinician, manager, leader etc.

 In this e-book, we  will also bring you insights ,ideas and thought leadership  from leadership gurus, leaders, researchers,  educators etc to support you as you  reflect on and  experientially  learn  to make  a difference in your every day practice.