Responding to the Department of Health and Social Care’s new performance measures for NHS leaders, the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management Chief Executive, Professor Rich Withnall, said:
“Rewarding leaders financially is a well-intended, and potentially effective measure to incentivise performance improvements.
NHS England has appointed the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) to lead a project with the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management (FMLM), and the Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) to create a new NHS Management and Leadership Framework.
The new multi-disciplinary framework will provide clear expectations of managers and leaders working across the service. A Code of Practice for all NHS and social care managers and leaders will also be developed through this work.
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The term ‘leadership’ has multiple definitions. In this context it refers to the combination of leadership, management, and followership activities that individuals and groups undertake in their daily work (the ‘leadership triad’).
The third annual Keogh lecture – and the first since 2019, due the Coronavirus pandemic – took place online this week. The lecture was given by Professor Jonathan Van Tam MBE, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer and member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), co-Chair of the Global Health Security Advisory Group (GHSAG) pandemic influenza working group (PIWG) and Professor of Health Protection, University of Nottingham.