The DH Chief Professional Officers have endorsed developing clinical leadership:
Dame Christine Beasley DBE, Chief Nursing Officer and Director General within the Department of Health for Professional Leadership (including Allied Health Professions) and for Children, Families and Maternity
Barry Cockcroft CBE, Chief Dental Officer and professional head of dental staff in England
Professor Sue Hill OBE Chief Scientific Officer with responsibility for delivering the Government's strategy for a modernised healthcare science workforce and scientific services
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director NHS England and responsible for the quality framework, clinical policy and strategy and postgraduate education of doctors, dentists and pharmacists and postgraduate training of clinical scientists
Karen Middleton, Chief Health Professions Officer Department of Health
Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer and professional lead at the Department of Health on implementation of the Government's Pharmacy in the Future programme
Also David Foster, Deputy Nursing Officer Department of Health gives us his view of what leadership means.