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  • The 21st century doctor : understanding the doctors of tomorrow.

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    The King's Fund, Shepherd, Susan, Levenson, Ros, and Atkinson, Stephen
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    This report summarises the discussions of 11 consultation events, ‘21st Century Doctor: Your future, your choices’, run from October 2009 to April 2010. An earlier series of events, ‘Do Doctors Have a Future?’ ran from May 2006 to April 2007 and looked at the way that doctors viewed the challenges ... and Acquiring and ensuring a professional approach is a key part of becoming a doctor. But how can doctors define and adopt this professional attitude and ensure that it is kept up to date in the same way as their clinical skills? And how should professionalism adapt and change to reflect ...

  • Revalidation : the early experiences and views of responsible officers from London.

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    Nath, Vijaya and The King's Fund
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    This paper summarises the results of a small research study designed to capture the experiences of and reflections on revalidation of responsible officers (ROs) in London. The results provide a snapshot of what the implementation of revalidation has meant for the new ROs six months in. The paper also draws ...

  • Medical revalidation : from compliance to commitment.

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    Nath, Vijaya, Seale, Becky, Kaur, Mandip, and The King's Fund
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    Medical revalidation of doctors became a statutory obligation for all employing organisations in 2012, but its origins stretch back to 2000. In that period, the NHS has undergone many changes and been scrutinised by several reviews. It was against this shifting context that The King's Fund carried out a qualitative ...

  • Medical engagement : a journey not an event.

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    Nath, Vijaya, The King's Fund, and Clark, John
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    This report is based on case studies of four NHS trusts with acknowledged high levels of medical engagement. It aims to help other organisations that are seeking to create cultures in which doctors want to engage more in the management, leadership and improvement of services. Based on interviews with a ...

  • Impact of the health white paper : what do doctors think?

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    The King's Fund and Doctors.net.uk
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    The white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’ (Department of Health 2010) sets out a wide-ranging set of proposals to reform the NHS. The King’s Fund and Doctors.net.uk have carried out a survey to ascertain doctors’ opinions of the impact of these reforms. This paper summarises the main findings ...

  • Organising care at the NHS front line : who is responsible?

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    The King's Fund, Berwick, Don, and Ham, Chris
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    This report looks at the reality of caring for acutely ill medical patients at the NHS front line and asks how care in hospitals can be improved. It comprises a series of essays by frontline clinicians, managers, quality improvement champions and patients, and provides vivid and frank detail about how ...

  • Medical engagement : too important to be left to chance.

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    The King's Fund and Clark, John
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    This paper will review the evidence which supports the view that securing greater engagement of doctors in management, leadership and service improvement is critical to improving performance. It will also draw on examples of good practice nationally and internationally, as well as offering some frameworks for obtaining and securing greater ... and This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform its review of leadership in the NHS.

  • The instrumental value of medical leadership : engaging doctors in improving services.

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    The King's Fund and Bohmer, Richard
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    This paper will concentrate on medical leadership. The paper was commissioned to contribute to The King’s Fund’s 2012 review of leadership and engagement. It will therefore describe models of medical leadership and predominantly refer to the medical literature. Importantly, this paper’s focus on medical leadership is not intended to detract ... and This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform its review of leadership in the NHS.

  • Improving NHS productivity : the secondary care doctor’s perspective.

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    The King's Fund, Foley, Tom, Allwood, Dominique, and Lemer, Claire
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    This paper explores the role of medical leadership and engagement as a means to improve productivity. It looks at the evidence about how doctors may best improve productivity, and how doctors practising today feel about this. and This paper was commissioned by The King’s Fund to inform its review of leadership in the NHS.