... Year 2 Doctors within the premises of one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. The key theme of the learning session was the introduction of the notion of competent medical leadership in the NHS. A leadership role has been traditionally seen as the task of managers and as such clinicians...

...”, and failures, and the generation and implementation of solutions (Brown et al., 2012). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Medical personnel Patient care Quality improvement Doctors Competences At the start of the twenty‐first century substantive national (Semple...

..., exploitation and exploration, in a way that ensures the best possible care for the patient. This paper examines previous research on the management competences and the organisational capabilities necessary for continuous innovation, and analyses evidence emerging from a study of palliative care. Work...

...Patrick Reedy; Mark Learmonth Examines the ideological nature of competence‐based approaches to the management training of nurse managers. Explores the transition required from a “clinical” identity to a managerial one. Employs Habermas’ theory of communicative action to analyse the ideological...

..., and professional staff in four NHS Trusts in the North Thames Region. The gap framework is inspired by the gap model developed by Zeithaml, Parasuraman and Berry from their research into service quality and incorporates Dave Sackett’s schema as well as a personal competency profile needed for the practice...

...Graeme Currie Illustrates the failure of a competence‐based management development programme in a hospital trust to achieve organisational objectives. The approach and content of the management development programme is resisted by participants despite the facilitators drawing on management theory...

... ] and attracted over a 1,000 responses. At this stage it was loosely based on the published structure of competence outlined by the Management Charter Initiative. The questionnaire was eventually refined after four iterations into a 59‐task characteristics version applicable to most doctors. This final version...