Purpose The importance of hospital board engagement in the work of governing healthcare
quality has been demonstrated in the literature. Research into influences on effective …

Aim To explore the challenges and opportunities facing executive nurse directors in the UK
and identify factors to strengthen their role and support more effective nurse leadership …

Objective The aim was to translate the findings of the QUASER study into a reflective,
dialogic guide to help senior hospital leaders develop an organization wide QI strategy …

The aim of this research has been to describe the implementation of safe staffing policies in
NHS general acute Trusts in England looking at costs and consequences, and examining …

Variation persists in the quality of board-level leadership of hospitals. The consequences of
poor leadership can be catastrophic for patients. The year 2019 marks 50 years of public …

To the outsider looking in, health policy in the UK, dominated as it is by the National Health
Service (NHS), and the reverence in which the NHS is held by many British people, might …

The public inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC into failings of care at the Mid Staffordshire
NHS Foundation Trust made 290 recommendations about matters including: standards of …

Abstract Scrutiny of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in publicly funded health systems has
highlighted their generally short tenure. Whilst the implications of high turnover have been …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a wholesale re-ordering of primary care service delivery.
Virtually overnight, consultations moved to telephone calls or online interactions wherever …

Purpose To present and discuss the findings of surveys on the profiles of hospital CEOs in
Poland, as carried out in 2012 and 2017, involving over a hundred hospital CEOs at various …