The Four Leadership Principles in Healthcare

In Jim Easton’s recent article in the Health Service Journal he relates the four leadership principles that the Department of Health want NHS organisations to align to as they try to improve quality and efficiency. These four principles are summarised as:

1. To work together to design new solutions

2. To manage improvements at the appropriate level

3. To value clinical leadership and engagement

4. To pull in the same direction

These are worthy principles but lack any indication as to how to do them, or substance to explain what actions this means in practice. The fact that these four principles lack any substance will mean their impact will be extremely limited. 

From a recent article we have produced on creating the right environment to ensure organisations are able to implement change successfully, we identified six key principles that differentiate those organisations who will be successful from those who will struggle and these are;

• Link improvement activities to things that really matter
• Make improvement is everyone’s responsibility
• Be responsive and flexible
• Celebrate and communicate every success
• Constantly adapt and evolve
• Build partnership within and outside the organisation

For each of these principles we have identified some of the key things that leaders actually need to do to ensure success and to find out more visit our website, join our network and be amongst the first people to receive a series of 3 white papers on how to create and effective environment and effectively manage organisational performance.

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