The coalition government wants to encourage health care providers to consider employee ownership, and the development of mutuals, with the aim of creating ‘the largest and most vibrant social enterprise sector in the world’ (Department of Health 2010a, p 36). These plans are part of a broader programme of public ...
The Routes project was commissioned by The King’s Fund in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association. and The health and social care system is currently tackling three inter-related challenges: coping with rising demand and reduced funding; handling NHS restructuring; and transforming social care. How can these challenges be seen as an opportunity to achieve fundamental change to the system? The Routes project, a simulation exercise created by ...
Studies in many industries, including health care, suggest that leadership is a critical element in organisational performance. Collins (2001) suggests that disciplined, hard-working leaders are essential to moving organisations from ‘good’ to ‘great’. Such leaders help companies to recruit the right leadership team, develop an effective strategy and create a ...
This report reviews recent developments in thinking and action in relation to leadership in the public and voluntary sectors, based on published and in press academic literature and in observed practices on the ground. The aim of the report is to stimulate discussion about the implications for leadership for health ...
The coalition government has made clear its commitment to the integration of health and social care in its proposals for reform. In the context of the intense financial and demographic challenges facing both health and social care, this paper offers a fresh assessment of the prospects for integrating health and ...
At a time of enormous change in the NHS, leaders and managers have a crucial role to play. But what sort of leaders does the service need? Does the model, prevalent in public service over recent years, of the ‘hero’ chief executive still hold sway? The King’s Fund set up ...
This review of followership in the NHS begins with a brief review of the clamour for leadership in the recent past as a way of transcending the apparent failure of the prior governance and targets approach. It suggests that to focus upon leadership, and a particular form of leadership, is ...
This paper draws on academic leadership literature and leadership development practice but is not based specifically on the health care literature or on health care leadership development. Its purpose is to outline some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development, regardless of sector, in order that the ...
The challenges facing the NHS at present are the same core challenges that face all organisations, commercial or otherwise: the delivery of an effective and efficient service with limited resources. While commercial organisations may additionally seek to make profit from this process, the differences in ownership, objectives and structure between ...