CAREFUL Leadership: How Your Leadership can Create Safe, Compassionate and Effective Healthcare

Do you work in healthcare as a doctor, nurse or allied healthprofessional? Or perhaps your job-title includes the wordsupervisor or manager?If so, then this book is written for you.Despite the recognised importance of leadership, and especially theimpact of first-level leaders - who sit traditionally at the bottom ofan organisation chart - few healthcare organisations systematicallyprovide leadership training to those who are new to the job.In this compact and accessible book Dr Hamblin-Brown offers suchhealthcare leaders some direct and practical advice using examplesand exercises that anyone can follow.Dr Hamblin-Brown has many years of experience both as a senioremergency doctor and international physician leader. He has alsospent several years outside healthcare where he worked to coachand develop leaders in other fields.CAREFUL Leadership distils leadership into seven qualities whichcan be learned and actively developed as skills. Using these skills,healthcare professionals can direct their energy more effectively toimprove the care of patients. The book discusses the psychology ofleadership as well as the basic approaches needed to influence andmanage both peers and teams.This is a companion and follow-up to Dr Hamblin-Brown's previousbook, The Meaning of CAREFUL, which discussed the issue ofculture in healthcare institutions. Taken together, these two bookscan help organisations and individuals address the pressing needfor better leadership in healthcare.