Abstract
The ideal to be aimed at in the leadership of, and by, nurses, midwives and health visitors must take account of the ways in which nursing (for convenience ‘nursing’ is used from now on to include midwives and health visitors) differs from other occupations in the NHS or in private health care. It must also take account of what should be supported and maintained and what it is desirable to try to change. Above all it must take account of the major changes that are affecting nursing and nurses
‘listening (especially to those at the front) remains the truest signal that “I take you seriously”’.
(Tom Peters)1
‘The undervaluing of nursing is the single largest problem facing the health service.’
(Howard Davies, when he was head of the Audit Commission)
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Stewart, R. (1996). Leadership and nurses. In: Leading in the NHS. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24309-9_3
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