• Recent Presentations
• Key documents
• Weblinks
• National Health Service
• Leadership and Management Frameworks
• Arms Length Bodies
• Professional guidance
• Healthcare Charities
• Networks
• Other Resources
• Training Media
• Podcast:  Systemic approaches to leadership

Recent Presentations

• Competitive environment: What is it and how to thrive in it
  Dr Kostas Agath, EMBA, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, NWDAS, CNWL NHS FT, Medical Director, Addaction

• Mr Peter Lees, Founding Director of FMLM

• Transformation and Recovery in mental health care
  Professor Philip Sugarman, MSc, MBA, PhD, FRCPsych and Chief Executive of St Andrew's Healthcare

Key documents

• A College strategy for professional development in leadership and management
• Leadership and management in psychiatry: a position statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Leadership and Management Study Guide for Higher Trainees

• Safe Patients, High Quality Services: A Guide to Job Descriptions and Job Plans for Consultant Psychiatrists

RCPsych Weblinks

• Psychiatric Trainees' Committee
• Centre for Advanced Learning and Conferences (CALC)
• CPD online

National Health Service

• Department of Health
• NHS Scotland
• Health in Wales
• Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
• Overview of the Health and Social Care Bill
• NHS Commissioning Board
• NHS Operating Framework
• NHS Leadership Academy
  To be a centre of excellence and beacon of best practice on leadership development, owned by the NHS and working for all those involved in NHS funded care.
• NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement 
  The NHS Institute transforms good ideas into workable solutions for an improving NHS.

Leadership and Management Frameworks

• Medical Leadership Competency Framework
  MLCF describes the leadership competences doctors need in order to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of health services.
• NHS Leadership Framework; 
  The Leadership Framework provides a consistent approach to leadership development for all staff in health and care irrespective of discipline, role, function or seniority and represents the standard for leadership behaviours that all staff should aspire to.

Arms Length Bodies

• Care Quality Commission 
  The independent regulator of all health and social care services in England.
• Monitor
  Monitor is the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts.
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  NICE guidance helps health and social care professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available evidence.
• Health Education England
  is the new national leadership organisation responsible for ensuring that education, training, and workforce development drives the highest quality public health and patient outcomes.
• National Patient Safety Association
  The NPSA is an arm's length body of the Department of Health. It was established in 2001 with a mandate to identify patient safety issues and find appropriate solutions.

Professional guidance

• General Medical Council; “Leadership and management for all doctors” 
• Good Medical Practice
• Good Psychiatric Practice - book
• The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
  FMLM is a new UK-wide organisation that aims to promote the advancement of medical leadership, management and quality improvement at all stages of the medical career for the benefit of patients.

Healthcare Charities (free to access)

• The Kings Fund
  is an independent charity working to improve health and health care in England.
• The Health Foundation 
  is an independent charity working to continuously improve the quality of healthcare in the UK.
• The Nuffield Trust 
  is an authoritative and independent source of evidence-based research and policy analysis for improving health care in the UK.

Networks

• The Network 
  an online community of medical students, junior doctors and newly qualified GPs and Consultants with an interest in clinical leadership and medical management.
• Clinical Leaders Network 
  A unique, national, professional leadership network for clinicians in England

Other Resources

• Institute of Health Improvement
  (IHI) believes that everyone deserves safe and effective health care, and we have been working with health care providers and leaders throughout the world to fulfill that promise.
• Harvard Business Review 
• Quality and Safety Journal; BMJ
• RSA animate  
  The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce): an enlightenment organisation committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.
• Ted Talks
  TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.