Organizing and reorganizing
Subtitle: power and change in health care organizations
By: edited by Lorna McKee, Ewan Ferlie, Paula Hyde.
Contributors: McKee, Lorna.; Ferlie, Ewan, 1956-; Hyde, Paula.; Great Britain. National Health Service.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230542945
Subjects: Health services administration -- Great Britain.; Organizational change.; Public Health Administration -- Great Britain.; Decision Making -- Great Britain.; Organizational Innovation -- Great Britain.; State Medicine -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Medicine and management in English primary care: a shifting balance of power? / Rod Sheaff; value: Processes of change in the reconfiguration of hospital services: the role of stakeholder involvement / Naomi Fulop, Perri 6 and Peter Spurgeon; value: Hospital sector organisational restructuring: evidence of its futility / Jeffrey Braithwaite ... [et al.]; value: Decentralization as a means to reorganize health-care in England: from theory to practice? / Mark Exworthy and Ian Greener; value: Va va voom, size doesn't matter: form and function in the NHS / Jill Schofield ... [et al.]; value: Evidence-based management: the power of evidence or evidence of power? / Mark Learmonth; value: 'Speaking truth to power': on the discomforts of researching the contemporary policy process / David J. Hunter; value: It's part of the job: healthcare restructuring and the health and safety of nursing aides / Michael J. O'Sullivan ... [et al.]; value: Chasing chameleons, chimeras and caterpillars: evaluating an organizational innovation in the National Health Service / Catherine Pope, Andrée le May and John Gabbay; value: Engaging the public voice in health care decision-making / Ann Casebeer ... [et al.]; value: The swampy lowland: using hyperlinks to navigate the multiple realities of partnership / Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh; value: Systems thinking for knowledge integration: new models for policy-research collaboration / Allan Best ... [et al.]; value: Strategies of persuasion: the efforts of nurse practitioners in institutionalizing a new role / Trish Reay and Karen Golden-Biddle; value: Knowledge to action?  the implications for policy and practice of research on innovation processes / Louise Fitzgerald ... [et al.]; value: Is the best defense a good offense?  marketing of quality by U.S. nursing homes / Jane Banaszak-Holl, Judith G. Calhoun and Larry R. Hearld; value: Models of medical work control: a theory elaboration from English general practice / Martin Kitchener and Mark Exworthy.