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The Clinical Leadership programme has been developed with BMJ Learning to help you develop the skills you need by offering relevant and practical training that is grounded in your clinical practice.

Courses in the programme are delivered online and are either 25 or 50 hours in length. You can study around your busy schedule and as our courses develop your work based skills, you can apply your learning straight away. For further information on this programme, please visit the BMJ website.

Courses

  • What is clinical leadership?
    This 25-hour course is aimed at health professionals and explores what it means to act with leadership as a clinician working in contemporary health services.
  • Developing yourself for clinical leadership
    This 25-hour course, aimed at health professionals working within the health service, explores the behaviours and skills required for clinical leadership.
  • Clinical teams and how they develop
    This online course is a self-contained introduction to working in clinical teams and the issues involved in improving teamworking and service performance.
  • Your service: governance and accountability
    This course is for health professionals working within the health service and looks at some of the wider NHS structures, systems and decision-making processes.
  • Your service: assessing quality
    This online course is a self-contained introduction to issues and approaches relevant to assessing the quality of health services.
  • Evaluating the flow of activities
    This online course focuses on understanding the detailed organisation of the delivery of a healthcare service and is for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
  • Developing options for service improvement
    This online course is aimed at health service professionals and focuses on how you can take forward and implement a real improvement to the service you currently work in.
  • Understanding service innovation
    This online course focuses on both general and health care innovation to help you understand how to take forward innovations in your own service.
  • Developing cases for innovation
    This course will help you, as a doctor, nurse or an allied health professional, develop the case for innovation in some aspect of your service.
  • Planning and leading service innovation
    This course is intended for the clinician who has already begun to investigate the benefits and feasibility for their service, of a particular service innovation or related bundle of innovations. 
  • Innovating across boundaries
    Aimed at doctors, nurses or allied health professionals working within the health service at various stages in their careers, this 50-hour online course is intended to be taken after earlier courses.
  • User-centred service innovations
    This online course addresses some of the fundamentals of 21st century healthcare.
  • Innovating in primary care
    This online course focuses on the need to improve services from the perspective of how patients experience them as well as improving health outcomes.

More courses

See the list of all our Professional skills courses.

Spotlight on Clinical Leadership

Leading health service delivery and improvement

This is part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership; study Leading health service delivery and improvement (B832) when you have completed seven of the CPD Clinical Leadership courses.

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