Releasing the potential of health services: translating clinical leadership into healthcare quality improvement

Abstract

A great deal of talk and effort is devoted to developing leadership and clinical leadership in the health service, for example through the work of the NHS Leadership Centre.The policy change, which has increased the likelihood of private companies, with shareholders as well as patients to consider, contracting for NHS services means an ever-increasing variety of health service providers producing models of leadership rather than just the traditional models within the NHS