NHS Leadership Framework
We are delighted to announce the new NHS Leadership Framework is now available. The NHS Leadership Framework has been designed to develop the leadership skills of healthcare staff, with the primary objective of improving patient care and outcomes.
This site brings together information about the Leadership Framework and explains how it can best be used to enhance leadership within your organisation. It combines personal development advice with best practice approaches and examples to show how the leadership framework could be used to support leadership development and other talent management initiatives.
"This is a unique period in the NHS and a time of significant change for health and care services in England, with an unprecedented level of responsibility being devolved to frontline staff. Building on our successes as we design the future requires bold and thoughtful leadership, rethinking how we work, challenging current practice and thinking outside of our own organisational and professional interests.
It will be imperative that frontline clinicians and the wider workforce have the leadership knowledge, skills and behaviours to drive radical service redesign and improvement. This will involve working in collaboration across health systems, in developing new models of care, and further developing the skills of the entire workforce. The ability to influence and manage change at the frontline will be central to delivering this. There is no doubt that we must continue to develop the leadership capability within the system. It is on this basis that the NHS Leadership Framework has been designed."
Sir David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive