1st Edition

Systems Leadership in Health and Social Care

By John Edmonstone Copyright 2019
162 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to move beyond simple collaboration and partnership and work towards different models of care which involve addressing the whole health and social care system. This is particularly important when addressing complex... Read more

1. What do we mean by systems leadership and why is it needed?

2. Systems leadership

3. Developing systems leadership

4. Systems leaders leading change

5. The challenge of evaluating systems leadership

6. Four journeys to systems leadership

7. Vignettes and personal accounts

8. Lessons learned

9. And finally…

Further exploration and reading

Biography

John Edmonstone is a leadership, management and organisation development consultant in public services in the UK and internationally with over 25 years' experience in the human resources and organisation development field in the UK NHS, local government and higher education. John is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy & Professional Practice, Keele University, UK.