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The National Public Health Leadership Programme (England)
The National Public Health Leadership Programme aims to ensure that public sector decisions will routinely take into account the health of the community or population served. The Programme commenced as a pilot in 1998. It now offers a multi-agency and multi-professional programme for leaders in the National Health Service as well as other public and voluntary sector organizations. It is sponsored by the NHS Leadership Centre. The focus is on leadership within and beyond one’s organization into the community they serve. The year-long programme content builds upon communication, decision-making, team-building, and analytical skills. It also focuses on content such as organizational cultures and behaviors, various leadership styles, and collaborative leadership.  Participants are allocated to facilitated learning sets for the duration of the programme. A special feature of the program is the opportunity to tackle a real leadership problem in an organization well outside the participants’ normal field of experience – e.g., the Stock Market, Music Industry, Manufacturing. This exercise enables participants to use their new/refreshed leadership and team working skills to tackle a problem, rather than their prior knowledge of the sector. To date, there have been no international scholars-we would welcome them!

Contact:
Marion Deacon, Manager
National Public Health Leadership Programme
Dept of Primary Care and Social Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
3rd Floor Reynolds Building
St Dunstan’s Road
London  W6 8RP. 
Tel:  020 7594 5197
Mob:  07951 136461 
Email:  marion.deacon@imperial.ac.uk