The Medical Leadership Competency Framework was developed jointly in 2008 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement together with a wide range of stakeholders.1
The framework outlines a range of competencies which are designed to enable Doctors to develop their leadership capabilities throughout their medical careers.
As a developmental tool the framework provides an invaluable guide to Doctors to plan a route to effective clinical leadership. It also provides an opportunity for Doctors to become more influential and proactive in the design and application of medical services in their own health economies.
Whilst providing an invaluable guide to the requirements of effective leadership, the framework however, does not provide a means by which these competencies can be acquired.
Healthskills has developed a framework of Leadership Clinics by which these competencies can be provided. The clinics focus closely on the domains contained within the framework and are designed with a strong element of duality, required to address the complexity of delivering business based solutions in a clinical setting. Modules will be delivered jointly by Healthskills facilitators and clinicians from the Healthskills academy of specialists.
Programmes can be built from the various clinics to suit the needs of different organisations but a strong sense of continuity will underpin this with an Action Learning approach linking each clinic to the previous clinic.
To find out more about the Leadership Clinics please contact us.
