June 2019 – news, commentaries, events, reports and articles

Chairs and non-executives in the NHS: The need for diverse leadershipChairs and non-executives in the NHS: The need for diverse leadership


NHS Confederation, 6th June 2019
Excerpt from NHS Confederation webpage “This report examines the arrangements for the recruitment and appointment of chairs and nonexecutives within the NHS (NHS non-executives include chairs and non-executives). As the report demonstrates, the progress and gains made in the early 2000s towards a more diverse board leadership in NHS trusts (including foundation trusts) has gone into reverse or made no progress. As a community of leaders, chairs and non-executive directors are often not representative of the communities they serve and the staff they govern.” See also article in Nursing Standard NHS becoming less diverse at board level, report reveals, by Kat Keogh, 08 June 2019

NHS Interim People Plan
June 3rd 2019
Excerpt from NHS Employers website :
Key actions for employers
Improve our leadership culture
Addressing how we need to develop and spread a positive inclusive person-centred leadership culture across the NHS, with a clear focus on improvement and advancing equality of opportunity.
Undertake system-wide engagement on a new NHS leadership compact that will          establish the cultural values and leadership behaviours NHS we expect from NHS leaders together with the support and development leaders should expect in return.
See also commentary by Valeria Fiore in Healthcare Leader,
NHS people plan: new ‘leadership compact’ to drive behaviour at the top, 4th June 2019
and
The NHS workforce plan is an off-the-scale fantasy, Cowper A, BMJ Observations, 6th June 2019

Investing in the power of nurse leadership – what will it take?
Nursing Now Campaign , further info on Nursing Now Campaign here
Publisher of report :  IntraHealth International, Nursing Now, Johnson & Johnson
June 2019
Excerpt from IntraHealth International press release web page: “This report draws from a review of existing literature, a survey of 2,537 nurses and nurse-midwives from 117 countries, and eight key informant interviews of nurse leaders to provide an in-depth analysis of the gender-related barriers to and facilitators of nurse leadership. The report derives from that analysis a set of recommendations for policymakers and implementers at the global, national, and institutional levels to accelerate strengthening nursing leadership and gender equality in the global nursing workforce.”
See also Nursing Standard article by Hackett K Banish idea of nursing as ‘women’s work’ to promote more female health leaders – report, 6th June 2019

Flexible working qualitative analysis
Organisations’ experiences of flexible working arrangements
March 2019
Nicks L , Burd H and Barnes J – The Behavioural Insights Team
Government Equalities Office
NHS Employers news post Report on flexible working experiences

Disability Summit Delegate Speakers Guide
NHS Employers
Biographies and information about the key speakers at this summit (April 30th 2019), from a range of different organisations and Trusts. Summary of the day here 

Ethnic minority staff and patients: a health service failure
A call for papers for a special theme issue of The BMJ Autumn 2019
Editorial BMJ 21st May 2019
Excerpt “This autumn The BMJ will publish a special issue to reflect the
working lives of doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds and
the healthcare experiences of ethnic minority patients. Why?
Because despite decades of evidence of disparities in health
outcomes related to ethnicity and differential attainment among
clinical staff, there has been little action. We want to highlight
discrimination and health inequalities related to race and
ethnicity, and we invite submissions on how to better
characterise the problems, air debate, and find solutions.”

Peer Support programme of bespoke support to local system leaders,  NHS Providers

Senior, experienced peers who work within the NHS and social care organisations or have very recent experience of leading and supporting local system working in their development offering support.
Cited in Kacey Cogle , http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/The-Scalpels-Daily-Blog/system-working-in-an-uncertain-world-
May 2019

Two learning disability nurses accepted onto esteemed London leadership course
Excerpt from Fab NHS stuff “Two Cumbrian learning disability nurses have been selected out of hundreds of applicants to undertake a prestigious leadership course in London. Fully funded by health education England Becca Reid and Kirsty Rudd are two of only 40 nurses from across the UK to be offered a place on the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s very first leadership programme for Learning Disability nurses.
May 25th 2019

Untapped potential: Investing in health and care data analytics
The Health Foundation, May 2019
Quote from page 21 ” Organisations with a well-developed analytical
workforce also tend to have strong leaders who are influential within the organisation,
whether these are chief analysts or in Chief Information Officer roles, and in some cases
they may be strong clinical professionals. The implication is that enhancing the profile
of good-quality analytics within an organisation must involve recognising the current
generation of leaders as well as investing in the next generation. A key skill is to spot
opportunities for analysis that other senior staff don’t see, and manage expectations around requests for analysis.”

Leadership Survey:Organizational Culture Is the Key to Better Health Care
NEJM Catalyst,  Insights Report, April 2019

Commentaries

David Oliver: Why aren’t more doctors NHS chief executives?
BMJ : British Medical Journal (Online); Vol. 365,  (Apr 9, 2019)

NHS boards are too often ‘another country’
University of Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business School, May 7th 2019
Professor Naomi Chambers discusses the observations and findings of a study in which a cohort of senior healthcare scientists on a leadership programme examined 43 NHS board meetings in England and Wales  in late 2018.

See also report
We still need to talk about boards, NHS Providers , May 2019
Updated briefing  setting out rationale for board leadership now and in the future

and John Coutt’s blog Why talk about boards ?, here 

The role of health in place-based leadership
NHS Confederation
Dr Phil Richardson, 15th May 2019

Talking leadership: Ben Fuchs on ‘advantage blindness’
The King’s Fund
May 24th 2019 

Lessons in leadership with Layla McCay
Healthcare Leader, 3rd June 2019
Layla McCay, director of international relations at the NHS Confederation, talks to deputy editor, Angela Sharda, about her take on leadership and mentoring.

Events

NHS Confederation and The King’s Fund breakfast debate: NHS leadership and culture
13th June , 8.30-9.45am – free event

Excerpt “With many of the longest-serving leaders having stepped down, a new generation of NHS leaders is coming through. Following on from our recent stakeholder breakfast on how to tackle the workforce crisis, this event will discuss what they will need to do differently to steer the NHS through a period of considerable change, addressing questions including:

  • How and why does NHS leadership culture need to change?
  • How do the challenges faced by the next generation of NHS leaders differ from those of their predecessors?
  • What can the workforce implementation plan do to promote a more diverse and inclusive culture in the NHS?”

“The breakfast event is being coordinated with the launch of a new NHS Confederation report on the experience of first-time NHS chief executives….”

Why systems and system leaders will inherit the NHS of the future
Free evening lecture on Thurs June 27th  5.00-6.30pm in Birmingham by Professor Sir Chris Ham
Centre for Health and Social Care Leadership, University of Birmingham

The role of senior leaders in supporting workforce disability
When: 26 / 6 / 2019 10.30am – 26 / 6 / 2019 11.30am
NHS Employers online webinar

Journal articles

‘You can give them wings to fly’: a qualitative study on values-based leadership in health care
BMC Med Ethics. 2019 May 27;20(1)

Emergence of informal clinical leadership as a catalyst for improving patient care quality and job satisfaction
Journal of advanced nursing Vol. 75, Iss. 5,  (May 2019): 1000-1009.

Adapting Leadership Perceptions Across Tasks: Micro-Origins of Informal Leadership Transitions
Small Group Research;  Vol. 50, Iss. 2,  (Apr 2019): 227-265

Intentional interprofessional leadership in maternal and child health
Leadership in health services  Vol. 32, Iss. 2,  (May 7, 2019): 212-225

Leading well: Challenges to researching leadership in occupational health psychology – and some ways forward
Work and Stress; Vol. 33, Iss. 2,  (Apr/Jun 2019): 107-118.
Part of Special Issue :  Leading well: Leadership and employee safety and wellbeing
Guest editors: Karina M. Nielsen and Toon W. Taris

Theoretical Development and Empirical Examination of a Three-Roles Model of Responsible Leadership
Journal of Business Ethics: Journal of Business Ethics ,  (Apr 2019): 1-21.

Exploring the Relationship Between Exclusive Talent Management, Perceived Organizational Justice and Employee Engagement: Bridging the Literature
Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 156, Iss. 4,  (Jun 2019): 903-917.

Navigating the Pathway to Leader Emergence in Self-Managed Work Groups Over Time: Should I Self-Promote and Try to Emerge Initially as a Leader?
Sex Roles;  Vol. 80, Iss. 7-8,  (Apr 2019): 489-502

Leadership in 21st century military healthcare: what did clinical psychologists ever do for us?
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps; Vol. 165, Iss. 2,  (Apr 2019)

Using Interpersonal Leadership Skills to Maximize Perioperative Team Member Engagement
AORN J. 2019 Jun;109(6):783-785

Gender Differences in How Leaders Determine Succession Potential: The Role of Interpersonal Fit With Followers
Front Psychol. 2019 May 3;10:752

Anticipating Disruptive Innovations With Foresight Leadership
Nurs Adm Q. 2019 May 13

Diversity and Inclusion

What happened during Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week 2019
Excerpt from website :
NHS Employers hosted the eighth Equality Diversity and Human Rights Week, which ran from 13-17 May 2019. This was a national platform for organisations to highlight their work to create a fairer, more inclusive NHS for patients and staff.
Detailed below is the full list of themes, activities and resources that we promoted throughout the week. This was to encourage organisations to share their own activities and events and photographs. These can still be found using the #EQW2019 hashtag.

Equality Mainstreaming Report
Golden Jubilee Foundation , 2019

Inclusive Clinical Practice and Policy for Muslim Nursing Students
Journal of Transcultural Nursing  March 2019

 

 

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