Medical Leadership: A Toolkit for Service Development and System Transformation

Today’s health care systems need doctors and consultants to act as leaders, within the multi-disciplinary team, in addition to carrying out their clinical role. This book identifies the key elements of successful leadership through 'medically led' service development and systems transformation and shows how this benefits patient care, particularly when patients become partners in the process.

The authors provide a conceptual framework of medical leadership and a set of scientific methods and tools that make a significant contribution to advancing quality and transforming services in healthcare. On top of this, they present analytical tools which medical professionals can use to support their own improvement or system transformation strategy, including ways of measuring improvement and the returns on investment of medical leadership.

Woven throughout the book are real-life case studies from medical leaders across the world, providing students with valuable practical insights. Chapter summaries and reflections are provided to support learning.

Medical Leadership will be essential reading for students on medical and clinical leadership courses internationally as well as for all practising doctors, consultants and General Practitioners.

Jill Aylott is Consultant in Autism and CEO at the International Academy of Medical Leadership (IAML) and Head of Programmes for Medical Leadership, Social Care and Quality Improvement.

Jeff Perring is Consultant Intensivist and Medical Director, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Ann Chapman is Consultant/Clinical Director, NHS Lanarkshire; Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow.

Ahmed Nassef is Consultant Vascular Surgeon and Fellow in Endovascular Surgery at Australia North Shore Hospital (2016–2017) and currently Deputy Convener for the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.