Tag Archives: Audits

Latest news – Sept 2016

NHS Improvement Tool released – Create a culture and leadership programme: phase 1 discover (released Sept 6th 2016)tick
Diagnose your trust’s current culture and target the right areas for your collective leadership strategy.
This guide covers setting up your culture and leadership programme. It will help you diagnose your current culture using existing data, board, staff and stakeholder perceptions, and workforce analysis. You will then be ready to target the right areas for your collective leadership strategy.
The resources have been developed through the real life experiences of three pilot trusts and are are based on national and international evidence that identifies elements and behaviours needed for high quality care cultures.
The resources for Phase 2: Design and Phase 3: Deliver are currently under development. Find out more about the programme.

Bias in leadership: What’s your story?tick
NHS Employers , blog post by Dan Robertson , 26th August 2016
Moving from the Century Trilogy a book by Ken Follett which Robertson sees as describing classical male dominated , command and control type of leadership to the more authentic  and inclusive leadership attributes described by Kotter, Goffee and Jones in the Harvard Business Review , this post  suggests “the real questions for today’s leader include: Are you aware of how you appear to others who are different to you? How do you move outside of your comfort zones? How do insider outsider dynamics play out in your organisations? And are you brave enough to challenge the status quo? If a colleague wrote a trilogy about you, how would it read?”

Clinical leadership challenges: The role of national clinical audits and registries in improving patient outcomes : Views from the HQIP Clinical Leadership Seminar, London 27 May 2016tick
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP),
Mullan K
Excerpt:  The main challenges described by participants at the event were:
• Providing leadership that encourages interest in national clinical audit data when there are limitations to the data that reduce its face value for some clinicians
• Finding ways to shift the perception of national clinical audit away from just being a tool to identify poor performance to a way to celebrate excellence as well
• Programme management challenges in relation to securing access to NHS Digital2 data
• Managing the tension between the strong preference among clinicians for publishing audit data at unit/team level instead of consultant level.
Report also has summaries of guest speaker presentations.

Initiating and Utilizing Shared Leadership in Teams: The Role of Leader Humility, Team Proactive Personality, and Team Performance Capability119710687050730804piotr_halas_padlock.svg.hi
J Appl Psychol. 2016 Sep 12.
Chiu CC, Owens BP, Tesluk PE.
A theoretical study based on 62 Taiwanese professional work teams

Leadership and emotional intelligence in nursing and midwifery education and practice: a discussion paperpound-sign
Journal of Advanced Nursing 2016, Sep 8 (embargo on most recent 12 months via NHS OpenAthens)
Carragher J, and Gormley K.
Article is based on a search of published evidence from 1990 – 2015 from which relevant sources were selected to build an informed discussion of links between leadership and emotional intelligence/ emotional-social intelligence . The authors’ search for evidence covered current practices in the United Kingdom, Ireland and internationally.

Assessment of cognitive bias in decision making and leadership styles among critical care nurses: A mixed methods studypound-sign
Journal of Advanced Nursing 2016, Sep 8 (embargo on most recent 12 months via NHS OpenAthens)
Soon LK and  Hani Nawaf Ibrahim AQ.
Article based on quantitative (96 participants) and qualitative (20 participants) study in  a critical care unit in Jordan.  The authors found that there is a need to “develop organization-level strategies to increase non-biased decision making”.

Towards person-centredness in aged care – exploring the impact of leadership
J Nurs Manag. 2016 Sep;24(6):766-74119710687050730804piotr_halas_padlock.svg.hi
Backman A et al
A Swedish study with a large number of respondents (3661 aged care staff) to a validated questionnaire assessing leadership behaviours, person-centeredness of care and the psychosocial climate. The role of middle managers is highlighted as important .

Vertical leadership in highly complex and unpredictable health systemspound-sign
British Journal of  Hospital Medicine (London). 2016 Aug 2;77(8):471-5
Till A, Dutta N, and  McKimm J.
PubMed abstract:  “
This article explores how the concept of vertical leadership development might help health organizations cope with and thrive within highly complex and unpredictable health systems, looking at concepts of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and RUPT (rapid, unpredictable, paradoxical and tangled).”

Do vertical and shared leadership need each other in change management?pound-sign
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 2016, Vol. 37 Iss: 5, pp.558 – 578
Binci D ,  Cerruti C ,  Braganza A

Evaluating coaching’s effect: competencies, career mobility and retentionpound-sign
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 2016 Vol. 37 Iss: 7, pp.936 – 948
Reyes Liske JM, Holladay, CL
Article analyses the effectiveness of leadership coaching. The experimental group received both group and individual coaching and the authors point out that the study wasnt able to parse out to one type of coaching vs another. This they suggest merits further study .

NHS Leadership Academy – Participant Experience on the Ready Now programmetick
Jassi, R
Excerpt – Ram Jassi is currently a participant on The Ready Now programme, which is specifically designed for senior black Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) leaders who work in the NHS or in NHS funded services. He shares his experiences of the programme so far here. “It’s a programme about you, discovering the real you and once you have found yourself taking the knowledge back with you to challenge the status quo. It’s about how you operate in the healthcare system and how you can positively influence system change that translates into an inclusive system”.

Authentic leadership and thriving among nurses: the mediating role of empathy
Journal of Nursing Management, 2016, vol 24  issue 3(p357-365)119710687050730804piotr_halas_padlock.svg.hi
Mortier, AV et al
The authors define thriving as a sense of learning and of vitality.
They found that the more nurses perceived their nurse manager as empathic, the more vitality the nurses reported and that nurses’ learning remained strongly and positively associated with the authentic leadership style of the nurse manager regardless of empathy.