Compassionate Leadership Principles

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Compassionate Leadership Principles

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The Compassionate Leadership Principles for Health and Social Care in Wales aim to create a shared language of what compassionate leadership is and what it looks like in practice. Through this, they will support leadership development and play a significant role in achieving the Workforce Strategy ambition that 'by 2030 leaders in the health and social care will display collective and compassionate leadership'.

These overarching principles underpin our ambition that by 2030, leaders in the health and social care system will display collective and compassionate leadership. The development of the principles was supported by Professor Michael West, a credible source of knowledge.

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As Compassionate Leaders
across health and social care in Wales we will...