A Guide to Medical Leadership & the NHS 2018-19

Please note: If you book to attend our Everyday Medical Leadership & The NHS course then you receive a hard copy of this book at the event as part of your package.

See a preview of the first chapter below.

Contents

Chapter 1:  Introduction

1.01 ‘A moral and professional responsibility’

1.02 Your current perceptions

Chapter 2: What is wrong with the NHS?

2.01 What do you think?

2.02 Financial headlines

2.03 The triple aim and the triple tension

2.04 Politics and inconsistency

2.05 What does the British public think?

2.06 Evidence based medical leadership

2.07 What do patients and their carers think?

2.08 Errors

2.09 NHS culture

2.10 Workforce morale

Chapter 3: Drivers, reactions and experiences of change

3.01 Can there be a positive way forward?

3.02 Typical reactions to change

3.03 What is changing at present?

3.04 Drivers of change: PESTLE

3.05 PESTLE interactions and impact

3.06 Choosing your response to change

Chapter 4: The history of the NHS

4.01 Why is history important?

4.02 The birth of the NHS

4.03 Founding principles of the NHS

4.04 Prescription charges – an early change

4.05 A history of innovation, progress and achievement

4.06 Key reports and restructures

4.07 Five Year Forward View (5YFV)

4.08 Time for a new plan?

Chapter 5: Structures of the NHS

5.01 Who are ‘The NHS’?

5.02 Common organisational elements of the four NHS systems

5.03 The structure of the NHS in England

5.04 The structure and direction of the NHS is Scotland

5.05 The structure and direction of the NHS in Wales

5.06 The structure and direction of the NHS in Northern Ireland

5.07 Your interaction within the structure

Chapter 6: Finance and the NHS

6.01 Where does the money come from?

6.02 The deficit

6.03 How does the money flow?

6.04 Population age distribution

6.05 The impact of lifestyle

6.06 Comparisons with different countries

6.07 The NHS workforce

6.08 Property and PFI

6.09 ‘Unwarranted variations’

6.10 An ‘ethical duty to prevent waste’

6.11 Difficult decisions

Chapter 7:  Going forward

7.01 Dare to be optimistic for the NHS?

7.02 Your reflections

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