Leadership in the NHS: Reflections of a Chief Medical Officer
Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chairman, National Patient Safety Agency and former Chief Medical Officer 1998 - 2010
4 April 2011
Leadership lecture series, and leadership commission
kindly supported by
Chief Medical Officer: Four quadrants of focus
Improving the population’s
health
Protecting thepublic
Medicine andmedical practice
Better and safer care
Smoking: A package of interventions
•Advertising banned
•Smuggling countermeasures
•Graphic messages
•Smoking cessation services
•Smoke-free public places
Chief Medical Officer: Four quadrants of focus
Improving the population’s
health
Protecting thepublic
Medicine andmedical practice
Better and safer care
Pandemic influenza: The mildness dilemma
“These are the sickest people I’ve ever seen”
Dr Anand Kumar, Intensive Care Specialist, Winnipeg Canada
New Scientist, 12 September 2009
“Swine flu? Pigs may fly”
Dr James Le Fanu
Telegraph, 2 September 2009
Improving the population’s
health
Protecting thepublic
Medicine andmedical practice
Better and safer care
Improving the population’s
health
Chief Medical Officer: Four quadrants of focus
Improving the population’s
health
Protecting thepublic
Medicine andmedical practice
Better and safer care
Improving the population’s
health
Chief Medical Officer: Four quadrants of focus
Slide 27
Leadership lessons
Consistency of purpose
Alignment of policy with staff values
Thinking about how to change
Public health needs big causes
Insatiable central demands for information
’Centralisation bad, localism good’ is too simplistic