The reform of health care
Subtitle: shaping, adapting and resisting policy developments
By: edited by Helen Dickinson, Russell Mannion
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230297937
Subjects: Medical policy; Health care reform; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues; Medical care; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General
Description: "This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice. This is an international text bringing together contributions from around the globe and covers a wide range of different discussions in relation to the policy/practice gap"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; H.Dickinson& R.Mannion; title: THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONALS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY; title: The Lost Health Service Tribe: In Search of Middle Managers; P.Hyde, E.Granter, L.McCann& J.Hassard; title: Managing the Psychological Contract in Health and Social Care: the Role of Policy; D.Wainwright &S.Sambrook; title: Autonomy in Health Care Practice: a Paradise Lost? P.Hupe; title: Affording Discretion in How Policy Objectives are Achieved: Lessons from Clinical Involvement in Decision-Making; A.McDermott, M.Keating& M.Benyon; title: Comparing the Quality of Working Life of Doctors with Other Workers Across Europe; A.Mark, S.Lewis& M.Brookes; title: THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY; title: The Role of Organisational Identity in Healthcare Mergers: an NHS Example; N.Lennox-Chhugani; title: Organizational Networks - Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care? S.Dopson, E.Ferlie, L.Fitzgerald& G.McGivern; title: Discourse in Healthcare Policy: Comparing UK and Canada; E.Oborn, M.Barrett, A.Komporozos-Athanasiou& Y.Chan; title: Patient Safety: Whose Vision? K.Charles, L.McKee&S.McCann; title: CASE STUDIES ON IMPLEMENTATION AND REFORM; title: Inside Foundation Trust Hospitals: Using Archetype Theory to Understand how Freedoms Translate into Practice; R.Addicott&F.Frosini; title: Structuring Emergency Care: Policy and Organisational Behavioural Dimensions; P.Nugus, M.Sheikh& J.Braithwaite; title: Chronicling Twenty Years of Health Reform in the Czech Republic; S.L.Oswald & R.McEldowney; title: Achieving and Resisting Change: Workarounds Straddling and Widening Gaps; D.Debono, D.Greenfield, D.Black &J.Braithwaite; title: Taking the Gaps Seriously: the Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada; A.Casebeer& T.Reay; title: A Very Unpleasant Disease: Successful Post-Crisis Management in a Hospital Setting; C.Pilbeam& D.Buchanan; title: Conclusions; H.Dickinson& R.Mannion.