1st Edition
The Leadership Hike Shaping Primary Care Together
This timely, engaging and practical book explores why leadership matters in primary care, and how everyone can discover their leadership potential and use it to make a difference. Tailored specifically to the needs of primary care, and full of real-life clinical and management scenarios, the authors - both GPs as well as highly experienced leadership mentors - demonstrate how learning the art of leadership can be a significant and rewarding part of personal and professional development.
Foreword
Preface
Authors
Section 1: Our landscape: the complex world in which we work and lead
1. Context and organisational culture and how to influence it
2. Perspectives on leadership
Section 2: Ourselves: Knowing me …
3. Reach higher, dig deeper
4. Inspire confidence and connection
5. Play to your strengths
6. Don’t fit in
7. Use your limits
Section 3: Our teams: Travelling well together
8. How we communicate is a choice we make
9. The art of a good conversation
10. Navigating communication complexities
11. Help people to grow
12. Keep people on track
13. Become a team
14. Energise and motivate
15. Lead the team to be their best
16. Adapt and survive
Section 4: Our route and destination: Creating a path
17. Clarify vision and direction
18. Help the team to get more, and better, ideas
19. Create buy-in and build consensus
20. Chair effectively
Section 5: Our tools: Making things better
21. What could be better?
22. Understand the problem
23. Treat improvement like an experiment and measure it
24. Change and how to manage it
Section 6: A view from the top: A wider horizon
25. Be yourself
Index
Biography
Dr Amar Rughani MBE was a senior partner in Chapelgreen practice Sheffield (30 years), Former Associate postgraduate Dean Yorkshire & the Humber GP School, Provost RCGP South Yorkshire North Trent faculty, former MRCGP examiner and curriculum developer and Honorary senior clinical lecturer at Sheffield University.
In his educational career, he has developed personal development plans and written books for doctors and dentists on the subject. He has also written a book ‘Becoming a GP’ to help GP trainees preparing for the MRCGP and has contributed to a number of other GP books as co-author. He was blueprinting clinical lead for the RCGP and helped to develop the licensing examination(MRCGP) and the first GP curriculum. In recent years he has been developing leadership training and mentorship in Yorkshire & Humber deanery and it is this experience that informs this new book. In 2022 he was awarded an MBE for services to general practice.
Dr Joanna Bircher is a GP in Greater Manchester. She is Clinical Director to the RCGP/Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme, Clinical lead for Quality Improvement at Tameside and Glossop CCG , a Generation Q Fellow of the Health Foundation and a board member of AQuA (Advancing Quality Alliance). She has a Masters degree in Leadership for Quality Improvement from Ashridge Business School and is co-author of the RCGP Guide to Quality Improvement. Her particular interest is in making established QI methodology relevant and accessible for Primary Care.
"an authoritative and informative reference, in a highly readable format, that provides practical support for trainees and trainers…this book is also a resource for every one of us working in primary care – offering support for the everyday tasks that we all do. They challenge us not to do more, but to do what we already do differently…This book offers us someone to walk with at these most challenging of times. And that, ultimately, is its strength." - BJGP Life
