The Reform of Health Care: Shaping, Adapting and Resisting Policy Developments

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Lost Health Service Tribe:In Search of Middle Managers....Pages 7-20
Managing the Psychological Contract in Health and Social Care: The Role of Policy....Pages 21-36
Autonomy in Health Care Practice: A Paradise Lost?....Pages 37-50
Affording Discretion in How Policy Objectives are Achieved: Lessons from Clinician Involvement in Managerial Decision-Making....Pages 51-62
Comparing the Quality of Working Life of Doctors with Other Workers Across Europe....Pages 63-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Role of Organisational Identity in Health Care Mergers: An NHS Example....Pages 79-90
Organisational Networks — Can They Deliver Improvements in Health Care?....Pages 91-108
Discourses in Health Care Policy: Comparing UK and Canada....Pages 109-121
Patient Safety: Whose Vision?....Pages 122-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Inside Foundation Trust Hospitals: Using Archetype Theory to Understand How Freedoms Translate into Practice....Pages 139-150
Structuring Emergency Care: Policy and Organisational Behavioural Dimensions....Pages 151-163
Chronicling Twenty Years of Health Reform in Czech Republic....Pages 164-176
Achieving and Resisting Change: Workarounds Straddling and Widening Gaps in Health Care....Pages 177-192
Taking Policy-Practice Gaps Seriously: The Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada....Pages 193-210
A Very Unpleasant Disease: Successful Post-Crisis Management in a Hospital Setting....Pages 211-226
Conclusions....Pages 227-231
Back Matter....Pages 232-241