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:
Mala Rao, Head Public Health
Workforce & Capacity
Department of Health, Skipton House
80 London Road London SE1, 6LH
Phone: +44/207/972-3837
Email: Mala.Rao@doh.gsi.gov.uk