McKimm, JRankin, RPoole, PhillippaSwanwick, TBarrow, Mark2011-11-172009The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services 5(3):10-24 20091747-9886http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9278Doctors are seen as key to embedding health improvement and patient safety initiatives and there has been much international debate over how best to engage doctors in healthcare leadership and management. This paper explores the current focus on leadership development programmes for doctors through taking a comparative approach to initiatives in New Zealand and the UK. It also considers the challenges to embedding leadership development programmes at all levels of training, education and continuing professional development and highlights some of the implications arising from the two approaches.Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1747-9886/https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmJournal Article10.1108/17479886200900019Copyright: Pier Professionalhttp://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess2042-8642