The reform of health care: shaping, adapting and resisting policy developments

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. HELEN DICKINSON Senior Lecturer at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK, and a senior researcher for the Third Sector Research Centre, UK. She has research interests in collaborative working, leadership and priority setting, and decision making and has authored, co-authored oredited eight books and over thirty peer reviewed journal articles in these areas. RUSSELL MANNION Professor of Health Systems at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK. He also holds visiting professorships at the universities of Oslo, Norway, and New South Wales, Australia. INDICE: 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. Benyon - '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 b 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 Yearsof 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 - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29793-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés