CRC Press The Leadership Hike: Shaping Primary Care Together

Product Description This timely, engaging and practical book explores why leadership matters in primary care, and how everyone can discover their leadership potential and use it to make a difference. Tailored specifically to the needs of primary care, and full of real-life clinical and management scenarios, the authors - both GPs as well as highly experienced leadership mentors - demonstrate how learning the art of leadership can be a significant and rewarding part of personal and professional development. Review "an authoritative and informative reference, in a highly readable format, that provides practical support for trainees and trainers…this book is also a resource for every one of us working in primary care – offering support for the everyday tasks that we all do. They challenge us not to do more, but to do what we already do differently…This book offers us someone to walk with at these most challenging of times. And that, ultimately, is its strength." - BJGP Life About the Author Amar Rughani was a senior partner in Chapelgreen practice Sheffield (30 years), Former Associate postgraduate Dean Yorkshire & the Humber GP School, Provost RCGP South Yorkshire North Trent faculty, former MRCGP examiner and curriculum developer and Honorary senior clinical lecturer at Sheffield University.In his educational career, he has developed personal development plans and written books for doctors and dentists on the subject. He has also written a book ‘Becoming a GP’ to help GP trainees preparing for the MRCGP and has contributed to a number of other GP books as co-author. He was blueprinting clinical lead for the RCGP and helped to develop the licensing examination(MRCGP) and the first GP curriculum. In recent years he has been developing leadership training and mentorship in Yorkshire & Humber deanery and it is this experience that informs this new book. Dr Joanna Bircher is a GP in Greater Manchester. She is Clinical Director to the RCGP/Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme, Clinical lead for Quality Improvement at Tameside and Glossop CCG , a Generation Q Fellow of the Health Foundation and a board member of AQuA (Advancing Quality Alliance). She has a Masters degree in Leadership for Quality Improvement from Ashridge Business School and is co-author of the RCGP Guide to Quality Improvement. Her particular interest is in making established QI methodology relevant and accessible for Primary Care.