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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 14:85-86 (2002)
© 2002 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Editorial

The future of quality leadership

Zvi Stern

At the opening session of the 18th international conference of the International Society for Quality in Health Care, which convened in Buenos Aires, 2001, the following two subjects were presented for discussion:

  1. How are quality leaders developed.
  2. How is quality leadership supported and sustained.

There is no doubt that quality organizations need quality leaders, and that quality care needs to be delivered by quality organizations. The questions that still remain to be addressed, therefore, are who will these quality leaders be, and where are they to be found, if they are to be suitable as providers of quality care in the quality institutions.

Over the last decade, medicine has advanced in giant strides, both in technology and in clinical methodology in the treatment of a number of diseases, as well as in the standard of benefits the individual may derive from the health services. Many diseases are still incurable, whilst . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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