An exciting and important addition to organizational change and health care management literature, this topical book presents academically rigorous theory and a unique assessment of NHS change processes. Influenced by implementation methods, and also by the wider context, organization political issues and the nature of the changes themselves, the changes under consideration in this book are mostly large-scale, major, systemic, transformational, and strategic in their substance and intent. Some of the smaller-scale change processes explored here are significant as contributing elements to...
An exciting and important addition to organizational change and health care management literature, this topical book presents academically rigorous th...
This important book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices. The question of why good ideas do not spread, 'the best practices puzzle', has been widely recognized. But the 'improvement evaporation effect', where successful changes are discontinued, has attracted less attention. Keeping things the way they are has been seen as an organizational problem to be resolved, not a condition to be achieved. This is one of the first major studies of the sustainability of change focusing on the example of the NHS, by a unique team of health service and...
This important book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices. The question of why good ideas do not spread,...
Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures. Drawing on a large body of evidence acquired in the course of nearly fifty in-depth case studies following attempts to introduce evidence-based practice in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study hospital and primary care settings, they are able to shed light...
Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it...
Managing Change is about implementing health care reforms, policies and programs into everyday practices. The book explores organizational change in health care as influenced by contemporary policy and management concepts, and presents and applies theoretical perspectives.
Managing Change is about implementing health care reforms, policies and programs into everyday practices. The book explores organizational change in h...
This volume provides theory and research on organizational change and predominantly features the application of these ideas to the health care domain, broadly defined. It addresses enduring issues in advancing to an effective health care system. The aim of this book is to offer an accessible and readable text aimed at provoking thought and questioning, and aiding creativity. It proffers arguments and ideas which are firmly based in empirical data and evidence, so that the reader may make informed personal evaluations.
This book is designed to furnish a comprehensive theoretical...
This volume provides theory and research on organizational change and predominantly features the application of these ideas to the health care doma...
