Correlation between Improved Patient Care and Effective Team Leadership

What is the correlation between
improved patient care and effective
team leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Correlation between improved patient care and effective team leadership............................3
Rationale for ideas and examples from practice.....................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership skill is the quality of an individual to oversee a process and guide the
members of the team towards achieving the success of that task while ensuring their
development as well. Leadership skills are necessary not only for the healthcare industry but for
every industry of the world. The leader must organise the team members in different tasks so
that they move in a direction of achieving a common goal (Stronge and Xu, 2021). This essay
emphasises on the correlation between improvement of the effectiveness of patient care
provision with effective team leadership skills. This essay will highlight the importance of
leadership in healthcare with the help of leadership theories, models, and concepts along with
examples of practices which provide evidence for the importance of leadership.
MAIN BODY
Correlation between improved patient care and effective team leadership
Leading a team consist of thinking strategically, planning the course of action and
delivering it to the team members through effective communication, influencing the team
members to work together to achieve the shared goal and introducing and managing the changes
in the decided course of action for effective service providing (Olanrewaju and Okorie, 2019).
Delivering care to the patients is a comprehensive process in nature and requires involvement of
more than a single person. For providing effective care to the patients the presence of a person
who can lead and manage the entire process of providing care to the patients. With the ever
increasing health care needs the needs for effective healthcare provision is also increasing. The
modern healthcare settings exhibit the need of evolution in the leadership skills of the clinicians
who practice leadership roles at their workplace . A leader who practices leadership skills which
are inclusive and consider and try to fulfil the needs of the companion healthcare professionals
are most likely to bring up the standards of quality of care provision (Dahleez and Aboramadan,
2022).
Quality of patient care have a set of varying definitions but as per the NHS the key
features of care providing that can be considered for deciding the quality of healthcare provision
are patient safety, clinical effectiveness and and patient experience. The care quality commission
adds another couple of factors for determining the quality of health care which are efficiency of