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Public Health Leadership in Primary Care Practice: Everybody’s Business?

Wirrman-Gadsby, Erica, Carlson, Cindy (2005) Public Health Leadership in Primary Care Practice: Everybody’s Business? Critical Public Health, 15 (3). pp. 205-217. ISSN 0958-1596. (doi:10.1080/09581590500371305) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35452)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581590500371305

Abstract

This article analyses the concept of leadership in relation to the UK Government’s current

approach to ‘modernizing’ the NHS in England. Focusing on public health in primary care, the

authors consider current developments in the public health workforce, in particular attempts to

differentiate between public health ‘specialists’ and ‘practitioners’ by different levels of leadership

function. It looks at leadership in policy, theory and practice, and draws attention to a number

of key challenges along the leadership path. The concept of ‘leadership skills’ as a taught

competence is questioned, and Shelton and Darling’s (2001) ‘quantum skills’ model of leadership

is provided to suggest new ways in which public health leadership in a primary care context might

be approached. Whilst this article focuses on public health and primary care in England, the

complexity of primary care settings and public health delivery in other international contexts

extends its relevance to non-UK settings.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/09581590500371305
Uncontrolled keywords: Public health, primary care practice, leadership theory, quantum skill
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Depositing User: Tony Rees
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2013 14:20 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35452 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Wirrman-Gadsby, Erica.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-5911
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