The Clinical Executive Fast Track Scheme (CEFTS) is a pilot development programme designed and run by the NHS Leadership Academy that is available to one below board level senior clinicians looking to develop crucial skills and leadership behaviours in order to reach executive level roles within an organisation and/or system. While places are limited, the scheme is open to all registered healthcare professionals working in NHS funded care who are clinicians at one below board/governing body level or equivalent, as well as those working as Allied Health Professionals, Clinical Pharmacists and Health Care Scientists.
Then aim of this research is to establish an evidence base that informs the Leadership Academy of the extent to which CEFTS is making a tangible, positive and real-world impact on the participants’ skills and knowledge, their leadership behaviours and career development, and on the care provided by the organisations in which they work.
Download the Clinical Executive Fast Track Scheme (CEFTS) Evaluation Research Interim report.
Breaking Blue is a private-sector market research agency commissioned by the NHS Leadership Academy to conduct this evaluation in an unbiased and independent manner.