Strategic Health and Leadership Management

Running head: HEALTH AND LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT
Strategic Health and Leadership Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
At present there is a widespread recognition that the effective leadership by the
healthcare professionals in imperative under the modern healthcare settings. The principal
factor underpinning this concept is the drive to uplift the overall quality of care and patient
level of satisfactions (Kumar 2013). According to Al-Sawai (2013), leadership is behaviour
of an individual which is directed to acstivities of a group which has shared goals. The
principal aspect of the leadership style in the healthcare research and service is dynamic
process which influence group activities and coping with the change in the process of service
procurement. The following assignment is based on the critical analysis of a supplementary
research paper published by McGrath et al. 2008 in the domain of proper implementation and
sustaining transformation change in the health care domain. The critique of the article is
mainly based on central argument of the research paper and the conclusion drawn from that
argument.
Author’s central argument
The central argument of the author’s topic is based on the increase in the level of
stress in the public health care sectors and subsequent interventions in management the stress
level via the redesigning the methods of service procurement and successful implementation
of the change process in order to achieve better health outcome both from the perspective of
the service users and service uses (McGrath et al. 2008). Thus the main theme is of the
research which was helped the author to erect a framework of practice is the increase in the
level of stress among the healthcare professionals (McGrath et al. 2008). According to the
research reports published by Burton et al. (2016), workplace stress is high among the health
care professionals and the main reason behind this is increased working hours, poor patient:
staffs ratios, lack of proper remuneration and acknowledgements and compassion fatigue.

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Burton et al. (2016) is of the opinion that this increase in the level of stress among the
healthcare workers leads to decreased psychological health among the healthcare
professionals and this again leads to decrease in the overall quality of care and patient
satisfaction. The findings published by van Mol et al. (2015) also indicated that working
under the stressful environment like in the intensive care unit is emotionally challenging for
the healthcare professionals. This emotionally draining work type creates increased level of
job related stress along with compassion fatigue which decreases the overall quality of care.
Moreover, the increase in the level of stress also increases the employee turnover in the
healthcare domain which further decreases the staff: patient ratio and thereby increase the
level of stress over the existing professionals further.
Thus the main pillar (job related stress among healthcare professionals) of this
research holds prominent significance in the healthcare domains as the same statement has
been supported by various research articles.
Author’s conclusion
The conclusion cited by McGrath et al. (2008) highlighted that in order to
comprehensively implement the redesign in the procurement of the healthcare service in a
sustainable way proper leadership management needs to be undertaken and this include
application of clinical leadership, team-based problem solving skills, setting ambitious target,
strong performance management tools, standard maintenance of process improvement and
access of the data in order to track the level of success.
The overall conclusion of the paper is clearly stated with each proposed intervention
is succinctly highlighted in separate paragraph and is simultaneously backed by authentic and
relevant resources. However, not all the evidences used to back the conclusion of the research
paper are relevant in present day scenario. For example, in the domain of the importance of