Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce a special issue on boundary organising in healthcare bringing together a selection of six leading papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC 2020) Conference. Design/methodology/approach: In this...

Introduction -- Section 1. Analysing contemporary policy -- Chapter 1. The UK health policy process: Integration, fragmentation or pluralisation? -- Chapter 2. Populist polices and the medical profession: A case study from the UK -- Chapter 3. Corpus linguistics for policy analysis: Exploring...

The health professions are engaged in an ongoing and dynamic process involving reflection and adaptation, with factors such as socio-economic and cultural developments and technological innovations compelling professions to respond to changed circumstances. This paper concerns English community...

Recent reforms, which change incentive and accountability structures in the English National Health Service, can be conceptualised as trying to shift the dominant institutional logic in the field of primary medical care (general medical practice) away from medical professionalism towards a logic...