New professions and leadership: the case of healthcare scientists in the United Kingdom

Simon Moralee and Berne Ferry

Chapter 28 in Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare, 2023, pp 524-549 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter outlines the development of UK Healthcare Science, from the emergence of apparently unrelated healthcare occupations into one distinct profession transcending healthcare research, clinical practice, service redesign and service delivery. Drawing on examples from England and the wider UK, it focuses on the professionalising work of the Modernising Scientific Careers team that resulted in the establishment of the National School of Healthcare Science. Through discussion of the inherent conditions within the healthcare landscape that impacted the development of this profession, it captures the professionalisation, leadership, followership and ensuing steps that were taken, which have resulted in healthcare scientists increasingly taking on prominent roles within UK healthcare and how this process was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this chapter assesses the consequences of this professionalisation project in terms of its impact on leadership and followership, nascent professions and on the organisation and delivery of health and care services.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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