Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on social enterprise as an organisational form in health organisation and management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a critique of the underlying assumptions associated with social enterprise in the context of English health...

Purpose – As healthcare has become more scientifically based and far more sophisticated in terms of technology, it has become more fragmented in terms of care‐giving, and less personal. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenging task of leading and managing in the gap between...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the roles of social values in the reform of coverage decisions for Thailand's Universal Health Coverage (UC) plan in 2009 and 2010. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative techniques, including document review and personal communication,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the role of social values in setting healthcare priorities in Korea. Design/methodology/approach – Using Clark and Weale's draft framework, Korean healthcare priority setting was analysed. The process values used were transparency,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the organisational and procedural arrangements for healthcare reform in China, and describe the role of social values in the relevant decision‐making process. Design/methodology/approach – An analysis of recent developments...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the organisational and procedural arrangements for priority setting in England and Wales. It describes the role of social values in the decision‐making process. Design/methodology/approach – The processes and content of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of health priority setting structures in Germany. It reflects on how and which social values may influence decision making, and in particular investigates the role of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the new US health organizations called accountable care organizations (ACOs) which are expected to improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare for Medicare enrolees. It assesses the importance of ACOs, defining and articulating the...

Purpose – Over the last five years many middle‐income Latin American countries have seen a steep increase in the number of cases litigating access to curative services. The purpose of this paper is to explore this complex phenomenon and outline some of its roots and impacts....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the social values framework developed by Clark and Weale could be applied to publicly available data and to explore the concordance between the framework values and those present in the statements of decision‐making protocols of...