networks, peer influence and professional values. However, evidence for the value of this approach, and how to make it … implications – Key lessons include: the need for co‐ordination and leadership alongside the lateral influence of peers; advantages …

Purpose – Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) are a new UK initiative to …

members contributes to improvement in practice. Leadership and facilitation are crucial elements of successful COP … and a vital concern to practitioners and administrators. Little is currently understood of the leadership and facilitation …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize existing evidence regarding health care team networks, including … members form professional (e.g. consultation) and personal (e.g. friendship) networks. Network formation can be influenced by ….e. providers sharing patient populations and physical proximity to colleagues). These networks can affect team member practice such …

cultural processes. A variety of policy initiatives, including the introduction of clinical governance and the resulting use of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact that research governance processes in the National Health … this experience, the team propose approaches for the development of existing research governance processes. The national …

delivery and governance in the UK public sector. As an early example, managed clinical networks for cancer were initially …Purpose – The aim of this paper is to show that there has been an increasing focus on networks as a model of service … considered to represent an ideological move towards a softer model of governance, with an emphasis on moving across the vertical …

Purpose – The paper aims to account for the substance of non‐linear governance change by analysing the importance of … recent reforms of the governance of medical performance in four European countries as a case, adopting an inductively … oriented approach to comparison. The governance of medical performance is a good case as it is both, closely related to …