Background The King’s Fund report ‘Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS: Together we can’ describes the purpose of effective leadership, in a simplified manner, to improve population health and patient care. The aim of this project is to inspire and share ideas with other clinicians, on potential ways to build on our experiences from previous leadership models and how best to adjust going forward.

Method Following on from the literature review, we suggest incorporating mentoring-style leadership masterclasses for early-career clinicians as part of their continuous development from the very start of their training to help:

1. Define what is meant by collective leadership;

2. Understand the importance of collective leadership within healthcare organisations;

3. Identify ways to get involved in projects involving collective leadership strategies for the future.

Results Junior clinicians are usually the ones able to identify many of the most pressing issues facing our health service today, due to their front line position. This means if equipped with the right tools, time, vision and opportunities they might also be able to resolve the same issues in the first instance; in turn improving system-wide safety and efficacy.

Discussion The King’s Fund report ‘Developing collective leadership for health care’ states the importance of appropriate diversity of leaders in health care organisations.

The proposed masterclass workshop model, aims to help bring these concepts to life, through a mentoring-style session by sharing other speakers’ real-life experiences. It further aims to demonstrate that leadership is not restricted to only some individuals and can be practised by all. In turn, increasing the confidence of early-career clinicians and empowering them to take on more responsibility for ensuring continuous high quality patient care regardless of their grade or position, through taking part in local or national initiatives.