The aim of IMPRESS is to provide the clinical leadership required to drive improvements across and beyond the traditional boundaries of primary and secondary care to achieve high quality integrated patient-centred care for the population with or at risk of respiratory disease. These pages will highlight some of the most recent resources available on leadership and clinical leadership specfically. They are not intended to be a comprehensive review.
Clinical engagement in leadership
The NHS Institute has recently produced resources on enhancing clinical engagement and its impact on organisational performance. It includes a useful review of the international literature by Professor Chris Ham as well as a scale of engagement. The publication Engaging Doctors in Leadership: What we can learn from international experience and research evidence describes how the scale was derived. Whllst it is aimed at acute sector managers, showing how to engage clinicians at all levels in the organisation, it is relevant for clinicians across sectors and at all levels.
Respiratory leadership
National leads
In December 2009 joint National Clinical Directors for respiratory disease in England were appointed. Their role will be to raise awareness of respiratory disease, and to oversee and steer the improvement of respiratory services in the NHS, with a particular focus on COPD, asthma, home oxygen and sleep apnoea. Professor Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer in the Department of Health and Dr Robert Winter, Chest Physician at Addenbrookes, and East of England SHA Medical Director, have been appointed to these important roles.
This means that respiratory disease now has national clinical directors sitting alongside those for cancer, CHD, diabetes, children’s health and mental health, championing the cause of respiratory disease at the highest levels in the NHS.
A new NHS Lung Improvement Programme has also been launched by NHS Improvement to support the development of clinical networks and the implementation of the forthcoming National Strategy for COPD. Its Lung Improvement team will support respiratory leads in the SHAs, the development of Respiratory Networks, and pilot programmes to improve the management of respiratory disease. It will build on the successes of existing national improvement programmes in Cancer, Cardiac, Diagnostics and Stroke services. The Lung Improvement Programme aims to support clinical teams, commissioners, service managers and other key stakeholders deliver effective clinical practice through process improvement and redesign. They have set up a Lung Improvement page here.
Regional Clinical Leads
We will also provide updates on the appointment of the Regional Clinical Leads as we receive the information.
East
Appointments made: Anthony Davison, Southend and Lianne Jongepier North East Essex
East Midlands
Appointments made: Jane Scullion, Leicester, Dermot Ryan, Loughborough and Mike Ward, Sherwood Forest
London
North East
Appointments made:
NE respiratory lead advert
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Job description and personal specification
North West
Closing date 12 March. interviews 19 March. Seek one part-time primary care and one-part time secondary care medical lead, plus a part time nursing lead.
More information.
South East Coast
Appointments made: Jo Congleton, Worthing, Jo Wookey, East Kent, Julia Bott, Surrey
South Central
Appointment made: Maxine Hardinge, Oxford
West Midlands
COPD respiratory lead advert
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Job description and personal specification
Yorkshire and Humber
Interim appointment: John White, York