The role of leadership in improving quality

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.

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.

Leadership Styles and Quality Improvement Strategies in Surgery - Justin Dimick, MD, PhD

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.

This session will bring rapid Pecha Kucha style presentations from each group around the world that is applying quality improvement techniques to tackle complex problems in mental health services. Get a glimpse into the breadth and scale of mental health improvement work taking place across the globe.

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound implications for how we practice Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare. But has it created a bigger role for QI, with increasing opportunities or has it put the nails in the coffin of QI as we know it? Six debaters will argue for and against this important but contentious motion, “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement”. Who will have the last word? Has COVID killed QI? Come find out – you decide the winner! After this session, participants will be able to: - Understand the arguments for and against “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement” - Experience a lively, active debate, argued from the head and the heart Have their perceptions about who thinks what challenged - Draw their own conclusions about whether “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement” Debate moderator: Helen Bevan, Horizons Team, NHS England and Improvement; England Join us this year by registering at http:/internationalforum.bmj.com