Effective Health Care Management presents the principles and criteria necessary to evaluate and enhance the quality of health care services in the NHS today. It provides an overview of health care management and health care policy, explores evidence based practice, and examines the ongoing need for management evaluation.
The authors discuss the role of outcome measures, performance indicators, benchmarking, and individual performance review. They also address clinical governance, accountability and professional autonomy, and the problems underlying 'seamless service provision'.
Effective Health Care Management presents the principles and criteria necessary to evaluate and enhance the quality of health care services in the NHS...
In this study the social construction of dementia is examined closely for the first time. Nancy Harding and Colin Palfrey show how Western society sees dementia as a disease, rather than a natural part of the ageing process. They take issue with the constructed view of the body as a machine, whose parts 'break down' and need replacement. Furthermore, the authors argue, the various explanations of the causes of dementia are nothing but speculation dressed up as theories, which serve only to confuse the carers. Based on an intensive three-year-long evaluation of a community care service for...
In this study the social construction of dementia is examined closely for the first time. Nancy Harding and Colin Palfrey show how Western society see...
Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policymaking process, but in reality, they are often disregarded. "Evaluation for the Real World "examines the use and nonuse of evaluation research by decision makers. Analyzing the frameworks and criteria of various evaluation procedures, it highlights the impact evaluation has on public policy with an emphasis on the real world of decision making in the public sector and the political and economic pressures it faces. Assessing the work of influential academics in both the United States and UK, the authors formulate strong...
Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policymaking process, but in reality, they are often disregarded. "Evaluation for the R...
This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services.
This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are av...
