The crisis of management in the NHS - The absence of leadership

yesThe on-going changes in England and Wales health policy that aimed to promote competition, provide enhanced performance information and create small health organisations produce significant attention within management. As the organisation of health system has moved from what a ‘loose-coupled’ system to an integration control system, there is an issue regarding the roles of healthcare providers as professionals and mangers roles as leaders of healthcare organisations. It could be concluded that the financial challenge for staff and the institution besides the pressure of expectation influence the healthcare leadership. This resulted in involves them fully and without bias in this process whilst being pragmatic enough to develop ideas, theories and techniques despite pronounced resistance. Therefore to engage with these changes and the policy, which underpins it, this paper explore the behavioural aspect of leadership style and its effect on management practice. It also considers the management of change and the impact of leadership during the change process.From email attached when submitting to Bradford Scholars on 10th Mar 2017: 22-Feb-2017 Dear Dr. McIntosh: Thank you for submitting a paper to Health Services Management Research. I am emailing to confirm that your manuscript entitled "The crisis of management in the NHS - The absence of leadership" has been successfully submitted online and is presently being given full consideration for publication in Health Services Management Research. We aim to complete peer review and make a decision on papers within 12 weeks". 10/03/2017 - smVal queried this is not in the journal yet. If it isn't we can discuss with Satu whether we keep the entry. Pre-prints are allowed by the publisher, but are we keeping them in Bradford Scholars. - sm 08/12/2017Pre-print submitted for peer-review