Clinical Leadership: the Elephant in the Room

Overview

Journal Int J Health Plann Manage

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Health Services

Date 2008 Sep 5

PMID 18770874

Citations 10

Authors

John Edmonstone

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Abstract

The article explores the concept of clinical leadership in the National Health Service in the UK by seeking to establish a workable definition and by contrasting it with managerial leadership, focussing on the 'disconnected hierarchy' in professional organizations. It proposes that the problems faced by clinical leadership relate to the current nature of general management in the NHS and concludes by suggesting that clinical leadership is the 'elephant in the room'-often ignored or unaddressed.

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