Cultures for Performance in Health Care

Name: Cultures for Performance in Health Care
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ISBN: 9780335215546

ISBN-10: 0335215548

ISBN-13: 9780335215546

Edition: 2004

Authors: Russell Mannion, Huw T.O. Davies, Martin N. Marshall

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There is increasing international interest in the potential of managing organisational culture as a lever for health care improvement. No-where is this interest in organisational culture more apparent than in the UK NHS. The latest NHS reforms as set out in the NHS Plan and Shifting the Balance of Power documentation make clear that cultural change needs to be wrought alongside structural and procedural reform if the anticipated benefits to the organisation are to be realised.This book offers evidence-based research on ways in which NHS managers can implement cultural change to improve performance. Detailed case studies of both high and low performing hospital trusts and primary care trusts…

Book details

List price: $147.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

List of figures and tables and boxes
Series editor's introduction
About the authors
Foreword by Aidan Halligan and Jay Bevington
Foreword by Nigel Edwards
Acknowledgements
Introduction: policy background and overview
Making sense of organizational culture in health care
Does organizational culture infuence health care performance?
A review of existing evidence
Culture and performance in acute hospital trusts: integration and synthesis of case study evidence
Culture and performance in English acute hospital trusts: condensed case study narratives
Findings from a quantitative analysis of all English NHS acute trusts
Findings from the primary care case studies
Summary, conclusions and implications for policy and research
Research design and methods of data gathering and analysis
Quantitative models and data definitions
References
Index
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