TY - JOUR
T1 - Time to get serious about distributed leadership
T2 - Lessons to learn for promoting leadership development for non-consultant career grade doctors in the UK
AU - Lagunes Cordoba, Emmeline
AU - Shale, Suzanne
AU - Evans, Rachel Clare
AU - Tracy, Derek
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - COVID-19 has exposed the National Health Service (NHS) to the greatest challenge in its existence, highlighting the need for nimble, reactive and inclusive leadership. It is set against a backdrop of a workforce recruitment and retention crisis predicted to worsen in coming years. There is a need to do things differently in healthcare, including better diversity and distribution of leadership. We make the case for senior non-consultant doctors, in the UK more usually referred to as specialty and associate specialist or locally employed doctors. These skilled, experienced medics have much to offer yet are frequently overlooked, with little guidance or support from central organisations and medical colleges or within NHS Trusts themselves. In this commentary, we suggest ways this workforce might be better tapped into, to the benefit of patients and healthcare systems, as well as the doctors themselves.
AB - COVID-19 has exposed the National Health Service (NHS) to the greatest challenge in its existence, highlighting the need for nimble, reactive and inclusive leadership. It is set against a backdrop of a workforce recruitment and retention crisis predicted to worsen in coming years. There is a need to do things differently in healthcare, including better diversity and distribution of leadership. We make the case for senior non-consultant doctors, in the UK more usually referred to as specialty and associate specialist or locally employed doctors. These skilled, experienced medics have much to offer yet are frequently overlooked, with little guidance or support from central organisations and medical colleges or within NHS Trusts themselves. In this commentary, we suggest ways this workforce might be better tapped into, to the benefit of patients and healthcare systems, as well as the doctors themselves.
KW - clinical leadership
KW - consultant
KW - SAS doctors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104535656&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/leader-2020-000395
DO - 10.1136/leader-2020-000395
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85104535656
SN - 2398-631X
JO - BMJ Leader
JF - BMJ Leader
M1 - e000395
ER -