The Practice Of Collaborative Leadership | The King's Fund
Jul 18, 2023 · What we found. Health and care staff are beginning to successfully work collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries. However, after many years of government policies promoting organisational independence in the NHS, the switch to working together is proving challenging even within the new organising framework of an ICS.
Transformational Change In Health And Care | The King's Fund
The King’s Fund has been calling for transformational change to respond to the growing pressures and demands in the health and care system. We have argued that transformation is best brought about ‘from within’, led by frontline staff and service users, and that it needs collaborative and distributed leadership styles.
What Is Compassionate Leadership? | The King's Fund
Feb 15, 2022 · Trzeciak and colleagues make a compelling case for ‘compassionomics’, the knowledge and scientific study of the effects of compassionate health care.Their research review of hundreds of published studies shows that compassion is the most powerful intervention in health care, and that compassionate health care is beneficial for patients through improving clinical outcomes; for health care ...
Improving NHS Culture - The King's Fund
Jun 4, 2015 · Inspiring vision and values. The first characteristics key to shaping an organisation’s culture are vision and values. Leaders at every level should communicate an inspiring, forward-looking and ambitious vision focused on offering high-quality, compassionate care to the communities they serve.
The courage of compassion - The King's Fund
Sep 23, 2020 · Context. Even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health and social care workforce across the United Kingdom was struggling to cope. One of the greatest challenges is in nursing, with 43,590 NHS nurse vacancies in England; 3,607 nurse and midwife posts vacant in Scotland; 2,488 nursing, health care assistant and nursing assistant vacancies across health and social care in ...
Making The Case For Quality Improvement | The King's Fund
Oct 10, 2017 · Introduction. The NHS faces the challenge of improving quality of care while coping with the biggest funding squeeze in its history.This challenge is significant and, in some parts of the NHS, quality is deteriorating rather than improving: waiting times are increasing (Murray et al 2017), the numbers of people waiting to leave hospital are at record levels (NHS England 2017a) and services in ...
GP funding and contracts explained - The King's Fund
The way general practices are contracted and funded is complex and very different from other parts of the health and care system. This explainer sets out how general practices are contracted and paid in England, looking at the services they are contracted to deliver, and the different streams of funding they receive.
Leadership and leadership development in health care
Feb 25, 2015 · A key challenge facing all NHS organisations is to nurture cultures that ensure the delivery of continuously improving high-quality, safe and compassionate health care.Leadership is the most influential factor in shaping organisational culture and ensuring the necessary leadership behaviours, strategies and qualities are developed is fundamental.
NHS: Key Facts And Figures | The King's Fund
Jun 25, 2024 · How much is spent on health and care? In 2022/23, the Department for Health and Social Care spent £182 billion.This money is used to fund a wide range of health and care services, including GP services, ambulance, mental health, community and hospital services that are commissioned by the NHS, as well as public health …
Leadership In Today's NHS - The King's Fund
Jul 18, 2018 · Key messages. In 2014, work by The King’s Fund assessed the level of leadership vacancies in NHS provider organisations. As pressures on services have increased and NHS organisations are called on to work more collaboratively, levels of leadership vacancies and leadership churn continue to pose problems.