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Developing future leaders: Clinical leadership conference

It seems there is more in the media than ever before about the economic sustainability of the NHS. In the UK and globally, a key concept in tackling the challenges we face is to use clinical leadership, involving those with first-hand experience of healthcare delivery in the design and implementation of efficient systems. In 2012, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a special issue on clinical leadership in the same week as the very first conference of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (16–17 October 2012). In 2013, the conference takes place in Edinburgh (15–16 October 2013) and is open to trainees in any discipline. For GP trainees interested in finding out more about how they can develop skills in this area for their future careers, this article sets out what happened at the 2012 conference and suggests ways of getting practical experience in leadership.