NHS Leadership Academy Programmes

The Leadership Academy provide a number of courses designed to develop better leadership for NHS employees at all levels of experience, many of which are free or fully funded. These includes programmes specifically designed for nurses and midwives, as well as those for clinicians.

Find out more here.

Event: The Leader as Coach: Building Stronger Teams

Wednesday 24 September 2014, London

"Using coaching techniques in the workplace can support effective team management by increasing the motivation and confidence of individuals. This workshop, aimed at senior managers, explores the use of a coaching management style and how to manage feedback in the workplace."

Find out more here.

Event: Delivering improved outcomes for local communities

25th June 2013 - London
26th June 2013 - Leeds

This is an opportunity for local leaders from Clinical Commissioning Groups, local authorities and NHS England to hear local and national perspectives on how working together to pursue shared priorities, can and is delivering improved outcomes for local populations.

Click here to register for the London event.

Click here to register for the Leeds event.

Call for abstracts: Health Services Research Network Symposium

Deadline 22nd March 2013

The organisers are keen to receive abstracts on the following themes:

• Patient experience
• Workforce
• Leadership and organisations
• Methods research
• Commissioning
• Access and equity of services
• Keeping people out of hospital
• Self-care and self management
• Quality and safety
• Productivity
• Innovation and knowledge translation
• Improvement Science

More information about abstract submission available here.

Event: Health Services Research Network Symposium

17th-18th June 2013 - EMCC, Nottingham, UK

"The Health Services Research Network Symposium, now in its sixth year, is the field’s premier knowledge event. It features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of UK and international health services research. The Symposium will bring together services leaders, services users and carers, researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers."

Find out more here.

Call for abstracts: Health Services Research Network Symposium 2013

Deadline for submission: 8th March 2013

You are invited to submit abstracts for presentation and/or poster display.

HSRN are keen to receive abstracts on the following:

• Patient experience
• Workforce
• Leadership and organisations
• Methods research
• Commissioning
• Access and equity of services
• Keeping people out of hospital
• Self-care and self management
• Quality and safety
• Productivity
• Innovation and knowledge translation
• Improvement Science

The Health Foundation invites abstracts on the theme of Improvement Science, that is new approaches to achieve measurable and timely improvement in care processes; development of the underlying theory and evaluation of methods to improve quality, safety and value; implementation of evidence-based healthcare.

The HSRN welcomes submissions relating to both quantitative and qualitative research and embraces work across all health care professions including nursing, pharmacy, medicine, management, physiotherapy, midwifery and all relevant disciplines including sociology, economics, epidemiology, health policy, statistics, psychology, history.

The scope of the Symposium covers all aspects of services including primary care, community care, social care, hospital care, health promotion and disease prevention, through curative services to long-term, rehabilitative and custodial care.

Find out more here.

Event: Health Services Research Network Symposium 2013

3rd-4th June 2013 - Liverpool AAC, UK

The Health Services Research Network Symposium, now in its sixth year, is the field’s premier knowledge event. It features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of UK and international health services research. Building on a very successful event in 2012, the Symposium will again be followed by the NHS Confederation Annual Conference and Exhibition, bringing together researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers. Find out more here.

Webinar: What the NHS can learn about strategy from leaders of social movements

17th January 2013 - 4-5pm GMT

During this session, the NHS Institute's Chief of Service Transformation Helen Bevan will explore the important lessons that social movement thinkers can teach us about building power for transformation through different levers for change and new and additional leadership capabilities.

Register for the session here.

Webinar: Why research matters to service leaders

12th November 2012 - 16:30-17:30 - online

Dr Tara Lamont will conduct conversations with prominent service leaders: to hear their stories, to learn what research informs their practice, and to discover how they and their teams support research.

Find out more here.

Event: Progressing health care in London

11th October 2012 - The King's Fund, London, England

This conference, for health and social care managers and leaders in London, will give you an understanding of how services in London will be led and delivered in the future.

Find out more here.

Webinar: Why research matters to managers

10th September 2012 - 4.30pm-5.30pm - online

This webinar explores the interface between researchers and service leaders.

Find out more and book your place via HSR Live.