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Clinical leadership and engagement

We work in General Practice, Hospitals and Primary Care Trusts. We have worked extensively with health professionals in leadership roles for more than 20 years. We have designed and directed a great variety of successful clinical leadership programmes, both single and multi-disciplinary, and provided tailored coaching to many clinical leaders. Programmes can support individuals, teams and partnerships.

We have a particular expertise and interest in work involving medical leaders. We work with Medical Directors, Clinical Directors, Directors of Public Health, Senior Partners in General Practice, PEC Chairs, PBC Leaders and others.

Most of our programmes have an organisational base: Hospital, General Practice, PCT or SHA, some are nationally advertised, such as ‘Dealing with Difficult Colleagues’ for the British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM).

How it works

We tailor programmes to the context, needs and wanted outcomes of both the commissioning organisation and the participants. Good design requires judgement of time commitment, participant need and interest, content and application support.

Our programmes:

Apply learning to the practical challenges people are facing day-to-day in work

Offer parallel topic sessions, so people can tailor the programme to their own needs

Offer robust theory alongside experiential learning

Offer focused feedback and support to really help people improve their approach

We expect people to exit our programmes with much-improved confidence as leaders, understanding themselves and their circumstances better, feeling that they have spent productive time getting to grips with the role and leaving with practical things they intend to do.

Aimed at:

Clinical leaders and their teams

Senior managers in PCTs and Acute Hospitals

Senior Partners in General Practice

Directors of Public Health

London teaching hospital senior clinicians introduction to leadership programme

This popular and successful 3 day modular programme runs twice a year to provide leadership development to more recently appointed senior clinicians. Read more…

General Practitioner leadership programme

We were approached by a PCT wanting to develop a leadership programme accessible and relevant to General Practitioners becoming involved with commissioning and service leadership. Read more…

Impact assessment of proposed GP-led ‘Darzi’ Centre

A PCT Board had decided on the basis of population, need and experience to place a GP-led ‘Darzi’ primary care centre in a particular market town. Meeting strong resistance from existing practices
the Board agree to undertake an impact assessment on existing services. Read more…

Coaching for a stressed Teaching Hospital Clinical Director

The frustration with pressure and demands on busy clinical and research workload were making life difficult for a newly appointed clinical director. Read more…

Coaching for a newly appointed Medical Director

A newly appointed medical director of a district general hospital was looking for support to make the transition to the new role. Read more…

Mediation in Accident and Emergency Department

We were approached by a Chief Executive faced with a poorly performing and demoralised A&E department. The department was under pressure from other clinical departments and from the Hospital Board. Read more…

‘Looking back coaching helped me get established quickly, which was critical in this job. We have also worked on the areas of the role that I have found most stressful. Being able to talk through problems has been very helpful, I have been able to explore problems from different angles and then use relevant frameworks that help with how I might approach problems more constructively.’
Medical director

‘It has made a huge difference: how to approach the role, fitted CD role into working life (would have driven myself mad). A lot of senior clinicians would benefit from this way of working. Very practical, the most useful thing I have done.’
Clinical director

‘I feel the clinical leadership programme has far out-weighed my expectations. I feel a “new person” – clear about my role and direction, who to make connections with.’
GP Commissioning Lead

'You have helped clear the air between us and we have now sorted practical ways to resolve our differences and use them. I feel more hopeful about our future, thank you.'
Senior Partner

‘I now have a strategy for dealing with a difficult colleague who runs a chaotic service’
GP

‘I have really enjoyed and benefited from this development programme. It has been great fun and energising and has given me a great deal of food for thought.’
GP

To find out more
or to discuss your
needs, please contact
Janice Quested
PA and Office Manager

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01268 780086

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janice@epiassociates.com