Why Should I Attend the Clinicians at the Helm Conference?

As improving clinical quality and the patient experience rises to the top of many national (and private) health systems’ agendas, the demand for clinician leadership rises as well. As framed by Lord Darzi’s June 2008 NHS report High Quality Care for All, true health service evolution rests on:

“Change—locally-led, patient-centred and clinically driven”

Yet, clinicians report a stunning lack of involvement in these health service reform efforts to date (see chart at right). Leaders must learn and deploy new strategies to engage these critical providers if real change is to occur. This will require shattering long-held beliefs among clinicians that their input is not welcome by providing them the support and tools to make critical decisions about care models, resource allocation, even staffing.

The Clinicians at the Helm conference in London will challenge assumptions about what drives engagement and supply tactics for enlisting clinicians in the massive reform effort ahead. Best practice findings are based on the Advisory Board’s work researching, publishing, and consulting with more than 2,000 hospitals worldwide.