Leadership Styles and Quality Improvement Strategies in Surgery

Finding the Right Leadership Style for Your Quality Improvement Agenda

Robert Varnam, UK. Applying scientific approaches to quality improvement in primary care requires effective leadership which creates vision, inspires commitment and embeds the use of new tools. Here, four international primary care improvement leaders evaluate the state of leadership for quality improvement in primary care, drawing out key lessons learned and challenges for the future.

Quality Improvement and Leadership in a Complex Environment. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds presentation by Thomas Staiger, MD.

Don Berwick, Founder and former President, IHI, about the role of clinicians in leadership speaks with Richard Bohmer, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School and International Fellow at The King's Fund.

We speak to three of our fellows (Tom Downes, Suzie Bailey and John Boulton) about how their experiences as Health Foundation fellows have helped them in their work to improve the quality of healthcare.

Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, President Emertius and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), discusses how important leadership is to quality improvement. In this two-minute clip, he disusses what he's learned about the key behaviors of leaders over the past 25 years.

Your clinical training may have helped you become a skilled clinician, but did it teach you how to lead improvement? IHI Senior Fellow Brent James, MD, describes the skills every successful clinical leader needs.

We asked Peter Lachman, deputy medical director for safety at Great Ormond Street Hospital, who he thought should be doing quality improvement work, and how professionals can work together on such projects.

The excellent Don Berwick's plenary speech at the International Forum in Berlin 2009