The role of the outcomes frameworks
This document sets out how the 3 outcomes frameworks, Adult Social Care, the NHS and Public Health, work together to achieve the desired outcomes for the health and care system. Read more »
You are exploring resources of the format: Briefing paper
Transforming the delivery of health and social care
This paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population’s needs and expectations. Read more »
Long-term health gains
This report, published by the NHS Conferederation’s Mental Health Network, presents evidence for investing in care that addresses both physical and psychological needs. Read more »
Housing, prevention and early intervention at work: a summary of the evidence base
This briefing paper by Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing learning and improvement network, provides an overview of the health and social care ‘dividend’ that can be achieved by closer integration and partnership working with housing. Read more »
Engaging doctors in leadership: what can we learn from trusts with high levels of medical engagement?
This briefing paper shares the key findings from a study of seven trusts which achieved high Medical Engagement Scale (MES) scores from an initial survey involving 30 trusts in England. Read more »
Developing effective leadership in the NHS to maximise the quality of patient care
Using feedback from a number of experienced NHS leaders, Chris Roebuck reviews past NHS leadership development and identifies leadership development options from the commercial sector that would benefit the NHS. Read more »
Followership in the NHS
This paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
The roles of leaders in high-performing health care systems
This paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »
Leadership in context: Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practice
Kim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. Read more »
Recent trends in leadership: Thinking and action in the public and voluntary service sectors
This paper is structured to reflect the Warwick 6 C Leadership Framework, looking at: concepts, contexts, characteristics, challenges, capabilities and consequences and emphasising that these elements are inter-connected and inter-active. Read more »