NHS or National Health Service is not only UK’s but world’s one of the largest healthcare systems that are funded by public and is aimed at UK public healthcare services. NHS being the oldest singularly paid healthcare system needs a lot of attention from management and requires strong leadership to continue the progress of the organization. The organization undergoes enormous system changes every year and Managing Change in the NHS is not without difficulties.
King’s Fund’s Commission on NHS management:
For this purpose a commission has been set up by the King’s Fund to ensure futuristic management and leadership to NHS. This commission serves the following purposes:
- Reviews present status of leadership and management of NHS.
- Based on the reviews proposes various plans to develop the management and to make the leadership of NHS even stronger.
- As NHS goes through various different financial and other challenges the commission ensures that the management of correct nature is established and that the leaders appointed are capable of combating and overcoming the contemporary challenges so that the health-care organization achieves its goals.
In the present view of the commission NHS must mobilize beyond the belief of heroic leadership, which no longer remains contemporary. The new approaches of leadership should be more adaptive, based on shared views and objective distribution.
Clinical supervision on improving leadership in NHS:
Clinical Supervision in the NHS is an already established practise that helps all medical practitioners to focus on specific aspects of their practise in an unusual way. Leadership of NHS can truly benefit from this practise as it pushes both mentor and mentee out of their comfort zone and the leaders will always be in need to push their supervised practitioners to think outside the box to improve the ways of their current work status.
This has proven to be more supportive and beneficial to NHS system as both leaders and their employees in NHS now learn alternative ways to deal with their existing issues. This makes the leaders and people in management go beyond the norms of the system, which is a really futuristic approach.
The NHS leaders also now focus on improving the equality in diversity in the NHS to ensure good and positive outcomes in the workplace. One such great step taken is improving the Cross Cultural Communication within the NHS. As NHS leadership aims to improve the cross-cultural barriers in the system we can hope that it will be more supportive to the system.
