Leadership in dentistry: findings from new tool to measure clinical leadership

Leadership in dentistry: findings from new tool to measure clinical leadership

Background In England, the recent reorganization of the National Health Service has led to the development of local dental networks and an emerging narrative on the importance of clinical leadership in dentistry. Analogous to clinical commissioning groups, local dental networks ensure general dental practitioners (GDPs) influence the delivery of local services. However, little is known about wh...

James Leadership in context Lessons from new leadership theory and current leadership development practice

Responding to Francis: clinical leadership

Fenton K, Phillips N (2013) Developing skills in clinical leadership for ward sisters. Nursing Times; 109; 9, 12-15. The Francis report has called for a strengthening of the ward sister’s role. It recommends that sisters should operate in a supervisory capacity and should not be office bound. Effective ward leadership has been recognised as being vital to high-quality patient care and experienc...

Leadership and approaches to leadership

Leader ship versus Management : Although some managers are able to influence followers to work toward the achievement of organizational goals, the conferring of formal authority upon a manager does not necessarily make that individual a leader. Yes, that individual has authority, but whether or not they are able to influence their subordinates may depend on more that just that authority. Not al...

Clinical leadership and innovation

This article suggests that effective clinical leadership leads to innovation. Innovation leads to change and that change leads to improvements in care, service, quality and professionalism. However, for this process to develop, clinical leadership needs to be clearly understood, clinical leaders need to be recognized, by their organizations and by themselves, and opportunities for genuine innov...