Original research: Leadership development in complex health systems: a qualitative study

摘要

Leadership is associated with organisational performance in healthcare, including quality, safety and clinical outcomes for patients. Leadership development programmes have proliferated in recent years. Nevertheless, very few have examined participant experiences in depth in order to understand which programmatic aspects they regard as most valuable relative to leadership in increasingly complex systems, or whether and how learnings may sustain over time. Accordingly, we explored experiences of participants in an interdisciplinary leadership development programme using qualitative methods over an extended look-back period.