Content An enabling leadership style is needed Applying this principle to practice An enabling leadership style is needed An ‘enabling leadership’ style which facilitates interactions between key people that transforms relationships leading to collective action is needed to enable the spread and adoption of complex innovations An enabling leadership style requires a mindset shift such […]

The NHS Long Term Plan highlights the importance of visible senior clinical leadership in enabling and assuring the delivery of high quality care both within organisations and in the new system architecture.

This framework, and accompanying case studies, looks at how existing structures and expectations may stand in the way of allied health professionals, doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, healthcare scientists and social workers contributing to strategic leadership.

This report shares the findings from a project we commissioned to evaluate current leadership arrangements for allied health professionals (AHPs). It provides an evidence-based approach to reviewing and improving AHP leadership in provider organisations.

We initiated this report in response to requests from directors of nursing for guidance about developing AHP leadership in their organisation.

We support organisations through all phases of the Culture and Leadership Programme, a modular programme which provides opportunities for organisations to understand their own culture using evidence-based tools, develop tailored leadership strategies for developing compassionate, inclusive and collective leadership and deliver culture change. Why the culture and leadership programme? The culture of NHS systems, and […]

We recognise that there are a wide range of resources which describe compassionate and inclusive cultures across a range of sectors. However, it can be difficult with limited time available to find relevant resources for your needs. We’ve therefore collected a range of resources within these pages which we feel are a good place to […]

We must make the NHS an employer of excellence – valuing, supporting, developing and investing in our people. Despite inclusion being a founding value of the welfare state in the United Kingdom the organisational cultures in health and care continue to reflect discrimination of the wider society. The pandemic has shone a spotlight on the […]

Compassionate inclusive leadership – leading and influencing all staff with kindness, empathy and care – is fundamental to the matron’s role. Matrons should use this to lead and influence their staff to deliver high quality care for patients by: being visible and providing an authoritative presence using strategic thinking to spread understanding of the organisation’s […]

West Yorkshire and Harrogate Partnership (WY&HP) is putting diverse leadership at the heart of its ICS workforce strategy, to address the disproportionately high poor experiences in the workplace for BAME staff. One of its ambitions is to have a more diverse leadership that better reflects the communities and the broad range of talent in West […]

By putting diverse leadership at the heart of their ICS workforce strategy, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Partnership aims to ensure that the poor experiences in the workplace that are particularly high for Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will become a thing of the past. Inclusive cultures depend on inclusive leaders. Powerful leadership can be […]