10.10.12
NHS Leadership Academy launches £46m programme
The largest leadership programme is set to be launched next year, the NHS Leadership Academy has announced. Over £46m will be invested in three core programmes by 2015, to teach up to 10,000 people each year to lead teams to deliver compassionate care.
The programmes start in September 2013 and the qualifications go alongside a new £2.7m programme for up to 300 nurses wishing to become directors. The courses are relevant for all staff, and particularly for clinical professionals intending to take on leadership roles.
The three programmes offer development at foundation, mid-career, and executive/senior level, with an emphasis on skills, knowledge and behaviours needed for radical service redesign.
Karen Lynas, deputy managing director of the NHS Leadership Academy and head of programmes, said: “When people come in to contact with health care staff they are often at their most vulnerable. They should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity and feel cared for.
“We want to create a generation of leaders who not only provide exceptional care to patients, whether directly as a clinician, or indirectly as a manager, but who act as role models and inspirational leaders for the next generation of NHS professionals.”
RCN chief executive and general secretary, Dr Peter Carter added: “From ward sisters and community matrons to directors of nursing, we know that effective leadership can make a big difference to patient care.”
Jan Sobieraj, managing director of the NHS Leadership Academy, said: “Great leadership will be at the heart of the transformation which needs to take place across the health system if we are to meet the health, financial, quality and reform challenges we’re facing.
“This is not about tweaking around the edges; it’s about industrial levels of innovation and change. Our core programmes will develop leadership at a scale which has never been done before so we can create a health system which stands up to those challenges, and overcomes them, and one which has compassion at its heart.”
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