NHS Leadership Spring Debates
The National Leadership Council is driving a transformation in leadership capacity and capability across the NHS.
Chaired by NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson, the NLC has sponsored five workstreams - Clinical Leadership, Board Development, Top Leaders, Inclusion and Emerging Leaders - which are implementing ambitious programmes with the service.
The Council recognises that there are a number of key leadership development issues that are likely to be contentious, and about which there will be conflicting views.
That’s why the NLC is launching the NHS Leadership Spring Debates - a series of debates in the service and across leading health professional magazines and websites to engage managers, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and the many other groups of staff in the following leadership questions:
- Do you think specific groups of staff should be chosen for leadership development as they are under-represented in senior NHS roles?
- Do you believe it is unfair that specific NHS organisations spend money on leaders and potential leaders who then leave to work in another part of the service?
- Do you want to see leaders sanctioned if the staff experience scores in their trust are low?
Help us Answer these Key Leadership Questions
NHS Leadership Spring Debates: Positive action
Should the NHS identify potential leaders for development in order to build representative talent pools or is this best left to individual aspiration?
NHS Leadership Spring Debates: Collaboration
Should NHS organisations develop leaders for the whole NHS collaboratively or focus their efforts on their own future leaders?
NHS Leadership Spring Debates: Patient and staff experience
Should leaders be held to account for the delivery of improvements in staff experience or should patient outcomes be the most important measure of performance?
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SHARE YOUR VIEWS!
However, we want your views now.
Simply post your comments on the articles at left, or if you do not wish to create a free HSJ account, email your thoughts to hsj.co.uk@emap.com and they will be posted online.
The range of views expressed and the strength of feeling on these issues will feed into the decision-making of the NLC. So join in - your views will help shape direction.
