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Explains how the Surrey and Sussex SHA has used sports coaching techniques to develop the leadership skills of its managers Sally O’Reilly The entrenched workings of the NHS are being challenged at Surrey and Sussex SHA, which has turned to sports psychology to shake things up Fostering cutting-edge leadership in the NHS isn’t easy. Decades of underfunding and deeply entrenched hierarchies have resulted in a culture in which staff at all levels are even more suspicious of change than those in the private sector. What’s more, many senior medical staff don’t take kindly to new-fangled management ideas such as consulting […]

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