Organisation Development in Health Care
Strategic Issues in Health Care Management
Published on 7. January 2002
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7546-1611-5 (ISBN)
Description
Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving health care quality and access. Notwithstanding the unprecedented health system reforms of the past decades, many outstanding problems remain in these areas. This collection of research papers examines the impact of organizational development on improving quality and efficiency in health care. The volume focuses in particular on organizational and managerial development in health care. A series of chapters provide accounts of organizational reconfiguration in the UK and elsewhere. The contributers examine how structural and procedural changes must be matched by development of the services of human resources if increases in efficiency and effectiveness are to be acheived.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 221 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1611-5 (9780754616115)
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Content
Part 1 Involvement and partnership arrangements: primary care groups - what are they and why are they here?; setting up local health groups in Wales - challenges and opportunites; developing an organization made up of people who thrive on changes. Part 2 Two teams and interdisciplinary working: introducing self-directed primary care teams in the NHS - an overview of initial strategic issues; interprofessional education - one aspect of archiving quality health and social care; getting the message across - mental health matters in older age. Part 3 Leadership: primary care groups - a study into the development of appropriate managerial skills; the role of middle managers in realizing human resource strategy - evidence from the NHS; effective and ineffective leadership within the NHS in Wales; strategic leadership in health care in challenging times; emperor's clothes? does training pay off? evaluating health management training in the developing world. Part 4 Future trends in development: the future of the European health sector - a scenarios approach; institutional change and trust in the National Health Service - examining the impact of reform on the NHS value structure; explaining variation in grant funding of health voluntary organizaions by Scottish health boards; power as a concept in the evaluation of telehealth.