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The reform of health care [electronic resource] : shaping, adapting and resisting policy development / edited by Helen Dickinson, Russell Mannion.

Health systems throughout the world are undertaking major reforms in the organization and delivery of health services. Amid widespread evidence of failure to implement new health policy initiatives the challenge is to develop a more nuanced understanding of the reasons for this policy- practice gap....

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Dickinson, Helen, Mannion, Russell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Organizational behaviour in health care series.
Subjects:
Health care reform.
Medical care.
Medical policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; H. Dickinson & R. Mannion
  • THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONALS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY
  • The Lost Health Service Tribe: In Search of Middle Managers; P. Hyde, E. Granter, L. McCann & J. Hassard
  • Managing the Psychological Contract in Health and Social Care: the Role of Policy; D. Wainwright & S. Sambrook
  • Autonomy in Health Care Practice: a Paradise Lost? P. Hupe
  • Affording Discretion in How Policy Objectives are Achieved: Lessons from Clinical Involvement in Decision-Making; A. McDermott, M. Keating & M. Beynon
  • Comparing the Quality of Working Life of Doctors with Other Workers Across Europe; A. Mark, S. Lewis & M.B rookes
  • THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY
  • The Role of Organizational Identity in Healthcare Mergers: an NHS Example; N. Lennox-Chhugani
  • Organizational Networks ₆ Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care? S.D opson, E. Ferlie, L. Fitzgerald & G. McGivern
  • Discourse in Healthcare Policy: Comparing UK and Canada; E. Oborn, M. Barrett, A. Komporozos-Athanasiou & Y. Chan
  • Patient Safety: Whose Vision? K. Charles, L. McKee & S. McCann
  • CASE STUDIES ON IMPLEMENTATION AND REFORM
  • Inside Foundation Trust Hospitals: Using Archetype Theory to Understand how Freedoms Translate into Practice; R. Addicott & F. Frosini
  • Structuring Emergency Care: Policy and Organisational Behavioural Dimensions; P. Nugus, M. Sheikh & J. Braithwaite
  • Chronicling Twenty Years of Health Reform in the Czech Republic; S.L. Oswald & R. McEldowney
  • Achieving and Resisting Change: Workarounds Straddling and Widening Gaps; D. Debono, D. Greenfield, D. Black & J. Braithwaite
  • Taking the Gaps Seriously: the Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada; A. Casebeer & T. Reay
  • A Very Unpleasant Disease: Successful Post-Crisis Management in a Hospital Setting; C. Pilbeam & D. Buchanan
  • Conclusions; H. Dickinson & R. Mannion.

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