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Developing leaders in health and care for the future

Supporting succession planning and the development of today's and tomorrow's clinical and care professional leaders.

20 April 2023

Identifying, recruiting and developing clinical and care professional leaders is crucial to sustainability of the health and care system.

We asked clinical and care professional leaders to explore what is needed to ensure seamless leadership and succession plan for the future. This infographic summarises what they told us.

  • Developing leaders in health and care for the future

    For uninterrupted leadership in our integrated health and care systems, succession planning is vital. For a seamless continuum of leadership, we need to identify, recruit and develop our clinical and care professional leaders now.

    We can do this by changing the culture in health and care so that our organisations do the following:

    Develop the best staff

    • Recognise talent
    • Value differences
    • Avoid education bias
    • Share learning across the whole system

    Support resilient leadership

    • Support educators and students
    • Develop career pathways within systems
    • Encourage mutual respect
    • Enable career movement within the system
    • Develop seamless leadership

    Seamless leadership

    Do you recognise the recommendations above within your system? What can be done to improve the way things are done where you are? Developing leaders in health and care for the future Develop seamless leadership

    This information is based on workshops held by the NHS Confederation with a multidisciplinary group of clinical and care professionals, focused on NHS England’s guidance: Building Strong Integrated Care Systems Everywhere.