All Leadership articles – Page 201
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CommentYour humble servant: the spectre of Stalin looms over year end
It’s difficult to make end of financial year decisions when pain aligns so closely with pleasure.
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HSJ Local
Efficiency training for managers underway at Ashford and St Peter’s
WORKFORCE: Executives at Ashford and St Peter’s have received leadership training to try and make them more productive.
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Comment'It makes a welcome change to hear praise for NHS managers'
Sir David Nicholson’s letter to colleagues after the spending review recognised that great public service leadership “more than anything else” will be central to improving quality and productivity.
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Leader‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery
As the NHS drowns in reform, the danger of distraction grows.
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HSJ KnowledgeNo time to be reining in training
Public sector austerity is not an excuse to cut back on training and appraisals but a reason to forge ahead with them and make organisations stronger, writes Alison Moore
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HSJ KnowledgeCoaching for success in the East Midlands
The East Midlands Leadership Academy has undertaken an executive coaching programme to develop the capabilities of 100 of the region’s NHS leaders.
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CommentHelen Bevan: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
NHS managers live in fear, which saps creativity and productivity. The antidote is hope
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2011: Prizes and plaudits for the protectors
Find out who is in the running as we unveil the shortlist for this year’s HSJ and Nursing Times Patient Safety Awards
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to create healthcare without walls
A spirit of cooperation between clinicians has helped a London primary care trust improve productivity and patient experience by moving services into the community. Laura Guest explains how they achieved it
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NewsEast Sussex chair to step down
The chair of a struggling trust is to step down because she does not want to commit to seeing it through foundation trust status.
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CommentGPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
Giving GPs freedom to innovate while protecting patients will be a difficult balance
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NewsKnighthood for Guys' chief executive
Ron Kerr, chief executive at Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust has been knighted in the New Years Honours list.
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Comment'Don't allow healthcare and public health improvement to be divided'
The raison d’être of local government is that elected councillors best represent residents’ concerns.
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NewsNHS Sheffield chief executive goes to top leadership role at DH
NHS Sheffield chief executive Jan Sobieraj is to be seconded to the Department of Health to work on leadership.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy are women still being barred from leadership?
While women are increasingly seeking leadership positions in healthcare, many organisational barriers persist, say Fiona Pathiraja and Marie-Claire Wilson
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NewsCoventry trust appoints chief exec
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust has appointed a permanent chief executive.
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NewsCommissioning board chief exec not in post until October
The chair and the chief executive of the proposed independent NHS commissioning board are unlikely to take up their roles until autumn next year, HSJ understands.
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HSJ Knowledge
Clinical leadership
There are countless definitions of leadership, but the majority concur that leadership is about working with people and organisations to achieve goals and to produce change. While overlapping with management, there is an enhanced focus on change, vision, inspiration and empowerment.
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NewsEaston criticises 'appalling and self-interested' NHS culture
National director for improvement and efficiency Jim Easton has claimed staff in the NHS hate learning from each other and put professional pride before the care of patients.
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NewsMPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail
The Department of Health may have to start justifying its detailed spending plans to the Commons health committee, HSJ has learned.