Leadership in health

 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. (Peter Drucker)

Here I attach the latest report about leadership in health published by King's Fund, an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England, and a leadership survey done to a range of NHS professionals.

Patient-Centred Leadership Some key findings are:

• The leadership of the NHS at a national level needs to create conditions in which local organisations have the freedom to deliver consistently high standards of care and where the needs of patients come first.
• The quality of care provided by NHS organisations should, first and foremost, be a corporate responsibility under the leadership of boards, who must lead by example by focusing on the quality and safety of care.
• Leaders need to value and support frontline staff and ensure the main focus is on patients and their care.

Leadership Survey 2013 Some key findings are:

• The perspective changes when you are evaluating the NHS, your organization or your service
• Respondents were more positive about the quality of leadership and priority given to the quality of care in their service/team than within their wider organisation or the NHS as a whole. 
• There were significant differences of opinion between professional groups. Managers and clinicians report big disparities among themselves. 
• The main obstacles to improve care are: time, resources and organisational culture.
• The leadership qualities less seen in health care organizations are: lack of integrity, real staff engagement, long term foculs, create a positive climate. 

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