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RESOURCE LIBRARY

This resource library contains links to information about the principles and practice of
systems leadership, with focus on its applicability to public services.
The focus is on resources from the UK, with a few international examples.
The listing is alphabetical by title.
Browse by keyword, information type or resource format.
Please contact us with details of any additional resources you think we should include.

The Better Care Exchange

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Collaborative online space for sharing good practice on delivering better integrated health and social care, and implementing Better Care Fund plans. Requires registration. Prospective users without NHS or government email addresses need to contact england.bettercareexchange@nhs.net to gain access

Keywords:: Service integration

Resource type:: Case studies, Tools and guidance

Formats:: Resource centres

Councils and NHS services must work together to share risks and savings

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Article arguing that local councils and NHS services in England need to unite around shared objectives that address the most difficult issues confronting them

Keywords:: Health care, Prevention, Public services, Service integration, Social care, Wellbeing

Resource type:: General information

Formats:: Online articles

What impact do regulators have on the NHS?

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Article examining the role that regulators could have in promoting systems leadership in the NHS

Keywords:: Cultural change, Health care, Service integration

Resource type:: General information

Formats:: Online articles

How does leadership make a difference to organisational culture and effectiveness?

by Leadership Centre | 2015

Paper using a complex systems approach to review the evidence around what impact leadership has on culture and organisational effectiveness, and what constitutes a well-led organisation. Focuses on UK public services

Keywords:: Leadership development, Outcomes focus, Public services, Systems theory

Resource type:: Scholarly research

Formats:: Downloadable documents

From systems thinking to systems being

by Leadership Centre | 2015

The author suggest that the concept of ‘systems being’ is ‘concerned with linking head, heart and hands. The expression of systems being is an integration of our full human capacities. It involves rationality with reverence to the mystery of life, listening beyond words, sensing with our whole being, and expressing our authentic self in every moment of […]