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The Reform of Health Care

Shaping, Adapting and Resisting Policy Developments

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Editors:
  1. Helen Dickinson

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  2. Russell Mannion

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Part of the book series: Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare (OBHC)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Helen Dickinson, Russell Mannion
      Pages 1-4

  3. The Role of Professionals in Implementing Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Lost Health Service Tribe:In Search of Middle Managers

      • Paula Hyde, Edward Granter, Leo McCann, John Hassard
      Pages 7-20

    3. Managing the Psychological Contract in Health and Social Care: The Role of Policy

      • Delia Wainwright, Sally Sambrook
      Pages 21-36

    4. Autonomy in Health Care Practice: A Paradise Lost?

      • Peter L. Hupe
      Pages 37-50

    5. Affording Discretion in How Policy Objectives are Achieved: Lessons from Clinician Involvement in Managerial Decision-Making

      • Aoife McDermot, Mary A. Keating, Malcolm J. Beynon
      Pages 51-62

    6. Comparing the Quality of Working Life of Doctors with Other Workers Across Europe

      • Annabelle Mark, Suzan Lewis, Michael Brookes
      Pages 63-75

  4. The Role of Culture and Institutions in Implementing Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. The Role of Organisational Identity in Health Care Mergers: An NHS Example

      • Niamh Lennox-Chhugani
      Pages 79-90

    3. Organisational Networks — Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care?

      • Sue Dopson, Gerry McGivern, Ewan Ferlie, Louise Fitzgerald
      Pages 91-108

    4. Discourses in Health Care Policy: Comparing UK and Canada

      • Eivor Oborn, Michael Barrett, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Yolande E. Chan
      Pages 109-121

    5. Patient Safety: Whose Vision?

      • Kathryn Charles, Lorna McKee, Sharon McCann
      Pages 122-136

  5. Case Studies on Implementation and Reform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Inside Foundation Trust Hospitals: Using Archetype Theory to Understand How Freedoms Translate into Practice

      • Rachael Addicott, Francesca Frosini
      Pages 139-150

    3. Structuring Emergency Care: Policy and Organisational Behavioural Dimensions

      • Peter Nugus, Mohamud Sheikh, Jeffrey Braithwaite
      Pages 151-163

    4. Chronicling Twenty Years of Health Reform in Czech Republic

      • Sharon L. Oswald, Rene McEldowney
      Pages 164-176

    5. Achieving and Resisting Change: Workarounds Straddling and Widening Gaps in Health Care

      • Deborah Debono, David Greenfield, Deborah Black, Jeffrey Braithwaite
      Pages 177-192

    6. Taking Policy-Practice Gaps Seriously: The Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada

      • Ann Casebeer, Trish Reay
      Pages 193-210

    7. A Very Unpleasant Disease: Successful Post-Crisis Management in a Hospital Setting

      • Colin J. Pilbeam, David A. Buchanan
      Pages 211-226
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Helen Dickinson, Russell Mannion

About the editors

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 or editedeight books and overthirty 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.

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