Download or read book Reshaping the National Health Service written by Robert Maxwell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the NHS Reforms written by Ray Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of the National Health Service reforms which resulted from the white paper Working for Patients, delivered in January 1989. The book contains accounts of seven research projects carried out on this topic over the period 1990 to 1993. Each chapter has been specially written for the book and describes the project in question, reports a number of its key findings and offers some thoughts about the likely course of future health policy in the relevant area as the NHS reforms develop over time.
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Download or read book The New Politics of the NHS written by Rudolf Klein and published by Radcliffe Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The New Politics of the NHS' is not a history of the NHS. It concentrates on those issues that seem best to illuminate the analytic themes and to provide the most insight into political processes.
Download or read book The New Politics of the NHS Seventh Edition written by Rudolf Klein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Politics of the NHS has become established over 30 years as the key overview of the NHS, its processes and paths of influence. The seventh edition remains a clear, easy-to-read guide to often complex debates. It encompasses both the background of the evolution of the NHS since its foundation, and a completely up-to-date picture of its prese
Download or read book Desperately Seeking Solutions written by David J. Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda. This book identifies and clarifies the numerous political and ethical issues surrounding rationing in healthcare. Drawing upon international examples it offers a critical overview of the approaches to rationing and makes practical proposals for its management. Desperately Seeking Solutions challenges the assumption that all health services are inherently subject to rationing as demand invariably outstrips supply and examines this within a comparative framework. The author critically evaluates the extent to which rationing has always existed and should exist within the NHS, although until recently it operated on an implicit rather than explicit basis and was bound up with clinical judgements rather than purely financial considerations. The author questions whether calls for explicit rationing are actually desirable and potentially feasible.
Download or read book Transforming Organizations written by Mark A. Abramson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Organizations provides in-depth case studies of outstanding government executives who dramatically changed both the performance and management of their organizations. The book includes case studies of Dan Goldin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ken Kizer of the Veterans Health Administration, James Lee Witt of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and four high-ranking government officials who changed procurement in the Department of Defense. In addition, the book includes interviews with NASA Administrator Goldin and FEMA's Director Witt. The volume also includes an essay by Ken Kizer on his experience transforming the Veterans Health Administration. From these case studies, Mark A. Abramson and Paul R. Lawrence develop eight lessons that all executives can learn from in transforming their organization: select the right person, involve key players, engage employees, and persevere.
Download or read book Management and Competition in the NHS written by Chris Ham and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition reviews recent reforms and the likely impact of future developments in management and competition in the NHS. In particular, it reflects the growing importance of primary care and the continuing debates about health care rationing. It concentrates on the realities and how they can be interpreted to help strategists, managers, clinicians, students and those supplying the NHS understand the mechanism of efficient health care delivery.
Download or read book A National Health Service written by John Mohan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-03-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms should be seen not as the inevitable product of technical developments nor as a consensus response to narrowly managerial difficulties within the NHS, but rather as part of a wider political strategy towards state provision of welfare. The book strongly emphasises the uneven geographical impacts of post-1979 changes, a topic usually underplayed by analysts of social policy, and draws heavily on previously unpublished material.
Download or read book Managing the National Health Service written by Stephen Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The NHS written by Anthony Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication argues that no health care system can do everything that is beneficial; nor should it try to. The way forward, therefore, is the best management of the inevitable gap between supply and demand. To show how this can be achieved the book sets out the case for the way the NHS is currently financed, and looks at the tensions caused by this funding, past and present, to show how to proceed to a better future.
Download or read book Health Policy in Britain written by Christopher Ham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically updated throughout, the 6th edition of this leading text takes the story of health policy to the end of the Blair era and into the early years of the Brown premiership. It offers a clear and thorough introduction to the history of the NHS, its funding and priorities, and to the process of policy making.
Download or read book From Hierarchy to Contract written by Anthony Harrison and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Realising Participation written by Kathryn Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health and social care services should regard and treat recipients as 'consumers' in the same way as companies and organizations in the private sector. This involves a considerable cultural change on the part of both service providers and their clients, and this timely study explores the extent to which such a cultural change is actually taking place in British society. The utilization of welfare services by a sample of people aged 70 and above on discharge from inpatient care and in a short period afterwards is examined as a critical testbed for key components of consumerism, including participation, representation, access, choice, information and redress. The book explores not only the extent to which opportunities are being provided for users to play an active role in their care, but also their degree of willingness to assume such a role. By investigating the experiences of clients from a generation which might be considered relatively resistant to a more active participation in health and social care, the study offers an important insight into the extent to which a real social transformation is indeed taking place in the British welfare services.
Download or read book Governing the New NHS written by John Storey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Two decades of reforms have introduced a market element, unprecedented transparency, patient choice, new incentives, devolved accountabilities and a host of new regulatory bodies. All these changes have made governance a crucial and contested issue in health care. Governing the New NHS makes sense of the new systems and will enable anyone interested in healthcare governance to navigate their way confidently through the maze. It describes, assesses and critiques the new governance arrangements. It examines how they are working in practice and how practitioners are responding. The book: explains current governance arrangements and explores related issues and tensions discusses the roles and interrelationships of boards and effective board practice offers a range of practical tools and frameworks. Each chapter is supplemented with expert witness statement written by leading practitioners in the health system. This practical book will be invaluable to all those interested in health governance, policy and management - whether academic, student or practitioner.
Download or read book A Guide to the NHS written by Tony White and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To maximise the effectiveness of their work, NHS employees need a clear understanding of the structures and systems of the organisation in which they work. However, this information can be widely spread, hard to access and difficult to gain a working overview of, and the pace of changes and initiatives can seem almost dizzying. This book draws together a clear picture of the modern NHS, from funding and governance to reports, inquiries and overarching legislation. The book is clear and easy to understand and crucially includes full references to provide a one-stop point of access to the most detailed and up-to-date information available. This book is essential reading for workers in the NHS at all levels, including managers, administrators and clinical professionals. It is vital reading for managers and staff at commercial companies working with the NHS. It will also be of interest to campaigners, patient interest groups, researchers and journalists with an interest in the NHS. Specialty registrars and consultants can also find the information from the book, and much more, in The Doctor's Handbook Parts 1 & 2, by the same author. 'Rather than long narrative histories or complex explanations, the author signposts readers to sources of further information, making this book the quick guide so many of us need' - from the Foreword by Sir Ian Carruthers
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
