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Consultants and leadership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Reed  and
Peter Hill
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One of the authors was asked recently why he was deliberately being ‘politically incorrect’ in writing about leadership in mental health services. Leadership, although considered essential to effective working by many professions and commercial organisations, has for years been very much out of favour in the NHS generally, among doctors in particular and, perhaps, among psychiatrists most of all. In part, the roots of such a prejudice lie in the tradition of consensus management which held sway throughout the first three decades of the NHS.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , July 1996 , pp. 166 - 172
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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