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The reform of health care : shaping, adapting and resisting policy developments / edited by Helen Dickinson, Russell Mannion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xviii, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230297937 (hardback)
  • 0230297935 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA 394 .D5
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 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. Brookes -- THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY -- The Role of Organisational Identity in Healthcare Mergers: an NHS Example; N. Lennox-Chhugani -- Organizational Networks -- Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care? S. Dopson, 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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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General circulation General circulation Main Campus Library General Stacks RA 394 .D5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available JTH 2016/014317

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- 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. Brookes -- THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS IN IMPLEMENTING POLICY -- The Role of Organisational Identity in Healthcare Mergers: an NHS Example; N. Lennox-Chhugani -- Organizational Networks -- Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care? S. Dopson, 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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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