Strategic leadership for health system transformation

A one-day programme for senior leaders

Purpose

Healthcare organisations across the world face remarkably similar challenges: increasing complexity, workforce pressures, rising demand and the need to improve quality while delivering better outcomes for patients. Regardless of country or healthcare system, sustainable improvement depends on leadership, organisational culture and the ability to build organisations that learn.

The day explores the leadership approaches, behaviours and organisational conditions that enable continuous improvement in complex healthcare systems. While informed by the ambitions of the NHS Quality Strategy, the themes are relevant to healthcare leaders working across different organisations and health systems.

Programme design

The programme is structured as a progressive leadership journey.

Each session builds on the previous one, moving from understanding the nature of complex organisational challenges, to creating the cultural conditions for addressing those challenges, before exploring how organisations embed learning through effective management systems.

Together, the three sessions explore how leadership, culture and management systems combine to build organisations capable of continuous learning and sustained improvement.


 

Audience

The event brings together an invited audience of current and future healthcare leaders from across the NHS, alongside participants from other healthcare systems. The diversity of the audience creates opportunities for learning across organisations, professions and countries.

Participants will include senior clinical and non-clinical leaders, operational managers, executives and selected Board members from a range of healthcare organisations. Participants come from different professional and organisational backgrounds, encouraging shared opportunities learning across boundaries.

The programme has been designed to be relevant regardless of role or setting, recognising that the leadership challenges of leading improvement, building culture and developing learning organisations are shared across acute, mental health, community and system leadership, both within the NHS and internationally.

Here are some job titles of attendees from previous BMJ | Virginia Mason Institute Future Health Leader events:

  • Board Member
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Chief Nursing Officer
  • Chief Information Officer (Chief Clinical Information Officer / Chief Nursing Information officer etc)
  • Head of Trust
  • Head of Department
  • Medical Director
  • Nursing Director
  • Strategy Lead
  • Head of Innovation
Timings

The BMJ | VMI Future Health Leaders programme will take place at BMJ Future Health on Thursday 29 October. The programme will begin after the opening keynote of the event, and finish at 16:30 with a private drinks reception.

Attendees of the programme are also welcome to attend day 2 of the BMJ Future Health conference free of charge.

Conference themes
  1. Leading in complex health systems
  2. The Boards role in driving continuous improvement
  3. Redesigning productivity
Benefits of attending
  1. Delivery strategies that turn ambition into action

  2. Tools to align and energise Boards and Executives

  3. People and patient first productivity ideas

  4. A global network of senior system leaders