Leadership

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

18 May 2010: All appointments are now made, including a number of those most involved in IMPRESS:

East

Appointments made: Anthony (Tony) Davison, Southend and Lianne Jongepier North East Essex [email protected]
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Appointments made: Dermot Ryan, Loughborough; Jane Scullion, Leicester, and Mike Ward, Sherwood Forest

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London

Dr Louise Restrick, Dr Vince Mak, Dr Craig Davidson, Maria Buxton, Sam Prigmore, Dr Noel Baxter, Dr Chris Cooper, Siân Williams, Sasha Wilson, supported by Commissioning Support for London

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North East

Appointments made: Paul Corris, Newcastle and Sharon Haggerty, County Durham

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North West

Appointments made: June Roberts, Salford; John Williams, Warrington and Halton; Stephen Gaduzo, Stockport

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South East Coast

Appointments made: Julia Bott, Surrey; Jo Congleton, Worthing; Jo Wookey, East Kent

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South Central