What Is The Role Of Leadership In Healthcare Education

Educational Policy and Leadership: Assignment 3
Issues for Contemporary Leaders of Healthcare Education: Revalidation Needs of the General Practice Clinical Team.

The General Practice (GP) workplace is now a multifunctional multidisciplinary unit. In many ways it could be considered a microcosm of the NHS with the need for several professional groups to work together for the good of the patients whilst providing efficiency and value for money. Various national policy documents cover this including Good Medical Practice (GMP) published by the General Medical Council and the GP Workforce Action Plan published by NHS England. These policy documents often concentrate on patient safety or the economic realities but revalidation policy is rather

GMP suggests that revalidation captures that requirement and gives a framework by which good practice can be evidenced. There can be barriers to overcome with the various constraints in the system, discussed below, but good leadership, particularly in Healthcare education in the broader sense can provide the key to maintaining a culture of educational aspiration and an eventual outcome of bringing the GP team closer together. One would expect a closer team to have increased potential for maximising efficiency. This essay explores how that can be achieved through the revalidation framework and more broadly the educational policy and leadership that underpins

Early descriptors as far back as Yuki (1989) describe it as "Individual members of a team engaging in activities that influence the team and other team members.". more recently
All the descriptors of shared leadership point to a common theme moving away from one recognised leader with subordinates to a more collective team ethic. Much work has been done this century on teamwork and the emergence of shared leadership has in part arisen from that. There are valid arguments for selecting a number of different leadership models in view of the multifaceted nature of General Practice but perhaps the most relevant today is the distributed leadership model where there is more focus on the activity of leadership rather than the role itself. .
Bennet also puts into context some of the implications this may have for professional