The research questions in this study centre on identifying:(a) processes by which leadership
is transmitted through health service organisations to effect the delivery of health services …

While the need for leadership in health care is well recognised, there is still the need to
better understand how leadership contributes to improving healthcare services. The body of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the challenges facing leaders in health
care, to explore the impact of these on the choices available to healthcare leaders, and to re …

ABSTRACT The Department of Health has a constitutional mandate to provide effective,
efficient and quality healthcare to all of the citizens that reside in the province of KwaZulu …

The white paper, will bring about large-scale changes to structure, process, and not least,
new ways of working—requiring inter-related changes in culture, behaviour and practice …

Purpose–This paper aims to briefly review leadership within the contemporary UK National
Health Services (NHS) including Department of Health and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) …

Several commentators have documented the organisational reforms that the NHS has
passed through since its inception in 1948. Each has supposedly been introduced to enable …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the case that health service leadership is
more than the sum total of all the health service management activity observed; and to …

This chapter explores four themes around leadership:• the main theories of leadership that
have emerged over the last 50 years, drawing out the ongoing influence of each• the ways in …

A great deal of talk and effort is devoted to developingleadership and clinical leadership in
the health service, for example through the work of the NHS LeadershipCentre. The policy …