Leadership and improvement

Specialist programmes and consultancy services to advance leadership capability and embed improvement approaches across health and care.
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Healthcare leadership focused on delivering sustainable change, that improves patient outcomes and financial performance, has never been more important. Our leadership and improvement suite has been designed to support leaders to meet the challenges that are facing today’s and tomorrow’s health and care system, to grow, drive change and successfully deliver essential reform.  

Healthcare leaders are at the forefront of change and improvement is the framework for how change can happen. We believe that to transform and deliver sustainable improvement, the healthcare sector needs to move to a model that embeds cross sector innovation, peer-to-peer learning, and builds the agency of leaders to deliver. 

How we can help you 

Our range of bespoke leadership programmes, alongside our innovative improvement and peer learning solutions, places us in a unique position to support and empower leaders across all parts of the system, by providing a safe space to think, practical tools and the opportunity to connect on key challenges. We can help with:    

  • Creating space and inspiration – giving leaders valuable thinking time and space 
  • Connection – creating opportunities to work together on solutions and connect with others 
  • Influencing the political and policy landscape – to support system work  
  • Supporting scale – help with working through system-wide approaches to change 
  • Upskilling leaders – supporting leaders to develop their improvement and leadership approaches 
  • Shared learning  – bringing together leaders from different geographies and sectors  
  • Practical support and tools – how to approach and deliver improvement with our frameworks and resources  
  • Balanced leadership - managing the short term while delivering long term vision  
  • Scale and spread – best practice and case study sharing to help support influencing 
  • Creating a culture – of continuous learning and improvement  

Join our leadership networks

Find out more about our three diverse leadership networks for peer support, resources and development.

  • We are uniquely placed to support and empower healthcare leaders with the skills, tools and space to develop their leadership and confidence in taking forward the improvement agenda within their own systems. We have:  

    • Extensive breadth, depth and understanding of the healthcare sector. 
    • Connections through our membership in all areas of health and care.  
    • Positive relationships at both local, regional and national level.  
    • Our reputation and long-term relationships with our members.  
    • Our influencing work can help to elevate profile and share best practice across systems.  
    • Independence, and providing a safe space for discussion and challenge. 
    • Experience, knowledge, tools and frameworks. 
    • Strong partnerships across the sector to bring in outside expertise in this space. 
    • Unique cross-system improvement framework to help you design and implement strategies to deliver large-scale change.
    • Lasting relationships that enable us to connect and share collective insights and learning, and advocate for scaling impact. 

Our programmes and support

Leadership 

In today’s complex healthcare environment, leaders across health and social care must think beyond traditional solutions. Our Systems Thinking and Leadership Development Programmes are designed to support leaders to develop their agency in navigating complexity, to connect, think differently, personally grow, drive innovation and create sustainable change.  

We offer a mix of open programmes and direct commissions, as well as options for bespoke leadership solutions.  

Improvement 

Improvement is a framework for how change happens. Our innovative improvement programmes connect leaders from across health and care, with peer learning, tools and resources and the chance to work together on system challenges. We can also support with bespoke improvement consultancy and work alongside you to deliver your aims. 

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Contact us

For more information on our leadership and improvement programmes, contact us.

Find out more about our Leadership Networks