Strategy for healthcare leadership – the next five years
Given the reset of the NHS and the reflection of this in the theme of the annual Leaders in Healthcare conference this year, it is timely that FMLM is reviewing its strategy and the way it works and interacts with partners and supporters for the next five years.
From 2022, while FMLM’s aims and objectives remain essentially unchanged, the new five-year strategy will refresh those anchoring goals in the light of new information and evidence-based research, along with a focus on wider, strategic issues. The early drafts are formulating and will be shared with members towards the end of the summer.
Dr Paul Evans, FMLM Medical Director, said:
“This is an important mid to longer-term vision for FMLM, as well as medical and dental leadership, as we step towards our next 10 years. The strategy is for members and FMLM’s key partners and stakeholders to have a say on the future direction of travel for our national and increasingly international leadership community.
“The essential take-away is that our fundamental principles remain the same – a focus on partnerships, collaboration and community for more and improved leadership support, knowledge and development for the benefit of patients, the workforce, the healthcare system and the wider health and wellbeing of our natural and cultural environment.”
FMLM’s key aims and objectives remain at the heart of the new strategy, which are to: increase acceptance of the need for strong medical and dental leadership to optimise future patient care in the UK; increase recognition of the Faculty as the professional body responsible for the Leadership and Management Standards for Medical Professionals for effective medical leadership; for these to be taken up and adopted as the defined values and behaviours expected; and encourage and promote an inclusive culture within all aspects of healthcare, for patients and for the workforce.
In addition, FMLM’s sights are firmly set on the burgeoning political, leadership issues of global sustainability and health and workforce inequalities, which are increasingly urgent, must be addressed and are therefore a key leadership issue for all working in and using healthcare services.
The early draft of the strategy has been shared with FMLM Fellows and their feedback has been enormously helpful. We look forward to sharing the strategy more widely, with members and strategic partners, towards the end of the summer.
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