Leadership in Health Services: Volume 20 Issue 1

Leadership development needs of managers who supervise foreign nurses

This concept paper seeks to outline evidenced‐based findings about the current experiences, best practices and leadership development needs of nurse leaders who work with foreign…

The adoption of high involvement work practices in Canadian nursing homes

The objective of the research is to assess the degree of adoption of high‐involvement nursing work practices in long‐term care organizations. It seeks to determine the…

Medical talent management: a model for physician deployment

This article aims to provide a focused cost‐effective method for triaging physicians into appropriate non‐clinical roles to benefit both doctors and healthcare organizations.

Lean as a learning system in a hospital ward

The purpose of this article is to discuss lean as a learning system in a hospital ward.

Taguchi's experimental design method on improvement of medical image quality

The aim of this article is to show how Taguchi methods can be applied to health care to improve the quality of medical images. Quality is often integrated with the performance and…

Physicians as Leaders: Who, How, and Why Now?

America - HA's Richard J. Davidson and Northwestern's Gary A. Mecklenburg named co-recipients of NCHL's National Healthcare Leadership Award

America - CHCF announces fellows for health care leadership program

Editorial

Canada - Health Canada announces $8.1 million for NurseOne portal: cutting edge tool another step to improving health care

Special issue on Lean in healthcare

UK - The NHS Centre for Involvement

UK - Charity challenge

America - States moving forward on e-health care

Canada - Walking the talk of evidence-informed decision making: CHSRF prepares for international review

Emerald at 40

UK - New workforce development unit opens for NHS Wales

UK - Councils should take responsibility for commissioning local health services