This independent report of the Mental Health Taskforce sets out a strategic approach to improving mental health outcomes across the health and care system, in partnership with the health arm’s length bodies. It prioritises prevention, access, integration, quality and a positive experience of care. Read more »
This discussion paper, published by the Association of Adult Directors of Social Services, that outlines the developmental steps needed to be taken immediately after the General Election in order to ensure a safe, secure and personalised care and health system for older and disabled people. Read more »
This document published by the Department of Health makes a number of proposals to improve mental health services for young people by 2020. Read more »
This briefing paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores the context and factors that have enabled change to happen in mental health services in the past 30 years. It includes 10 lessons for service transformation based on these experiences. Read more »
The Mental Health Foundation is a leading mental health research, policy and service improvement charity, committed to helping everyone lead mentally healthier lives. Read more »
This UK wide study led by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness explores evidence for how services can reduce suicide. Read more »
This action plan published by the World Health Organization recognises the essential role of mental health in achieving health for all people. Read more »
Leadership for transformational change: a review published by Yorkshire Health Economics Consortium and Landmark, 2013. Read more »
A mandate between the Government and the NHS Commissioning Board has been published setting out the ambitions for the health service for the next two years. Read more »
This is the report of an independent inquiry commissioned by the King’s Fund into the quality of general practice in England. Read more »
This paper, published by The King’s Fund, explores how the current health and social care delivery system has failed to keep pace with the population’s needs and expectations.
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The Centre for Mental Health aims to help to create a society in which people with mental health problems enjoy equal chances in life to those without. Read more »
Kim Turnbull James outlines some of the latest thinking in leadership theory and leadership development and includes three case studies of leadership development programmes which incorporate these ideas. The author suggests that a traditional conception of leadership, in which leadership is largely equated to leaders’ competences, behaviours and values, needs at the very least to… Read more »
This paper suggests that the current focus on leadership underestimates the role of followers in securing a successful health service and overestimates the ability of individual ‘heroic’ leaders to make a significant difference to all circumstances. Read more »
This paper reviews five health care systems that are viewed as ‘high-performing’, using cross-case methods to identify the key factors linked to their success, examining their leadership strategies, organisational processes and the investments they made to create and sustain improvements in care. Read more »
This strategy sets out six shared objectives to improve the mental health and well-being of the nation, and to improve outcomes for people with mental health problems through high quality services. Read more »
As the government’s healthcare reforms begin to take shape, the authour of this article stresses the importance of good leadership skills in improving productivity, quality and efficiency. Read more »
This report explores what difference leadership development makes, and how it can have impact on service and quality improvement. Read more »
Social movements literature points towards six groups of factors which, to varying degrees, answer these three core questions as to why people are ‘moved’ or mobilised into collective action and how such mobilisation is spread and sustained. Who are the activists in the NHS? Does the NHS improvement movement have available ‘mobilising’ structures of sufficient strength to get the movement off the ground? Read more »