Healthcare Leadership: A perspective from the shop floor: Demand, Capacity, Lean Thinking, Quality Improvements and Savings for Medical, Nursing, Clinical Leaders and Hospital Managers

Are you a CCG Lead or Commissioner? Are you a Service Manager of a Community Mental Health Team, CAMHS, an out-patient Service or similar? Are you a Nurse or Medical Leader at forefront of quality improvements in service delivery in healthcare settings? Have you grappled with increasing workloads and implementing Lean Thinking in your clinical service or hospital? If you have answered 'Yes' to any of the above questions, this short book will offer great value. The focus is not on the theory of leadership and change management, rather on the day to day challenges countenanced by leaders at the frontline of delivering services. A solution focussed approach has been held in exemplifying inefficiencies whilst at the same time finding creative ways forward. The musings stem from real-life settings and considers key constructs such as - demand and capacity in health settings, reference costs, hub-n-spoke versus point to point service delivery models, reducing waste, duplicating operational success and potential pros and cons of collaborations between NHS and private care provisions. Vision or visionary leadership is futile without excellent operational success and duplication of same. It is hoped that this short read helps frontline leaders in healthcare settings and offers practical pointers on matters relating to delivering cost-effective services irrespective of settings and ones training background/s. About the Author: Dr Joglekar is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist working in the UK. Having led a Trust Award winning Adolescent Mental Health Provision for nearly a decade, he has more recently been part of a county-wide eating disorders provision for young people under age of 18 that operates a hub-n-spoke model. This book is an effort to share a different perspective acquired over time while working with young people and their families and delivering services where waiting times have been well within nationally mandated limits.