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Introduction
Delivering the new 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS requires the best leadership talent. The NHS requires people who are trained and supported to lead the changes needed to fix a broken NHS and drive the excellent performance in a world-class healthcare system, which patients and the public rightly expect.
The vast majority of NHS managers and leaders across the country work hard every day to enhance performance, support staff and nurture a positive culture in the NHS. As the September 2024 Lord Darzi review of the NHS states:
“For the NHS to have more and better leaders, it needs to continue to invest in them”.
This is why we are improving how we support managers and leaders to reach their full potential.
Developing a leadership and management framework
We want to make sure that our current and future managers and leaders have the right skills and values to support colleagues to improve and deliver services, engendering a culture of openness and honesty in which all NHS staff are encouraged and supported to raise concerns. Managers and leaders need access to the right learning and training opportunities throughout their careers and patients and staff alike need to be confident that leadership in the NHS is effective and accountable.
That is why NHS England is developing a leadership and management framework, which will introduce a code of practice, a set of core standards and a development curriculum for managers. This will support managers and leaders to undertake further training to improve their effectiveness and to progress in their careers.
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