Leads: Dr Amy Grove, Public Health
Dates: Dec 2019-March 2025
Background:
In many healthcare services there are gaps between what is recommended by research evidence, and what is actually delivered by those on the clinical frontline, particularly in surgery. Existing literature focuses on the role of single individuals to promote the uptake and implementation of evidence-based interventions, and clinical leadership is fundamental in facilitating service improvements in healthcare. However, such leadership can take many approaches, and studies that aim to understand or model these different approaches to leadership are sparse.
Policy and Practice Partners:
We work closely with the British Orthopaedic Association, the British Hip Society and three NHS hospital Trusts who cannot be named due to ethical restrictions.
Co-Funding partners:
N/A
Aims and Objectives:
Aims to uncover and explain how to develop and improve distributed clinical leadership. This will hopefully improve the use of evidence in clinical practice.
We will also examine implementation leadership in orthopaedic surgery, aiming to explain leadership as a collective endeavour; one which cannot be separated from the organisational context.