Never has the NHS been a more diverse, complex or exciting place to work than now. Inevitably, this presents considerable challenges for newly appointed executives joining NHS boards. For nurse executives, who have a major role to play in ensuring excellence in the business of caring, effective clinical leadership at board level is essential and has never been more necessary.
Caring for patients is the key ‘product’ of the business of health care, and we make no apology for describing it as such. Bringing the leadership of caring and the leadership of business together to improve people’s experience of health care was the central objective of the Who Cares, Wins report (2006) commissioned from the Office for Public Management by the Burdett Trust for Nursing.
We are taking this work forward in partnership with The King’s Fund, and this handbook is the product of a joint programme of work to support nurse executives on NHS boards.We wanted to draw on
the experience of nurse executives who have already made the transition into an executive role, so that others could learn valuable lessons to enable them to fulfil their role as effectively as possible.The handbook is designed to enable all newly appointed nurse executives to approach their new role with confidence.
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