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Quasi‐government: the case of the Mental Health Act Commission

Cavadino, Michael - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 7, pp. 56-62

The Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC) is a “watchdog” body concerned with the rights of detained psychiatric patients in England and Wales. It was created by the UK government as a “quasi‐governmental” body in an ad hoc manner to defuse the controversy engendered by competing...

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Clinical management as boundary management

Fitzgerald, Louise; Dufour, Yvon - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 1/2, pp. 5-20

Focuses on the critical role played by professionals in the management of health‐care institutions in the UK and Canada. Using empirical data, examines the structural models of clinical management, the roles of clinical managers and their relationships with colleague professionals. Compares...

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Health‐care reforms in the People’s Republic of China

Wong, Victor C.W.; Chiu, Sammy W.S. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 1/2, pp. 76-92

Analyses the features, strategies and characteristics of health‐care reforms in the People’s Republic of China. Since the fourteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held in 1992, an emphasis has been placed on reform strategies such as cost recovery, profit making,...

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Managerialism, information technology and health reform in New Zealand

Doolin, Bill; Lawrence, Stewart - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 1/2, pp. 108-122

Recent health reform in New Zealand has transformed public hospitals and related health services into Crown Health Enterprises (CHEs), which have a statutory objective to operate as successful and efficient businesses. Examines managerialist interpretations of a proposed executive information...

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Primary care information technology within the NHS

Hackney, Ray; Dhillon, Gurpreet; McBride, Neil - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 5, pp. 388-395

primary care general practitioners (GPs), to aid decisions for the referral of patients to hospital specialists. The proposals …

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Introducing system contradiction to effect change in the public sector

Lawrence, Stewart; Doolin, Bill - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 7, pp. 490-504

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first part introduces a theoretical argument from Giddens to help explain the way in which accounting systems and systems of accountability have changed abruptly in New Zealand’s health care sector. The changes are proceeding, surrounded by controversy...

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The process of change related to health policy shift: reforming a health care system

Casebeer, Ann L.; Hannah, Kathryn J. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 11 (1998) 7, pp. 566-582

Efforts of governments to adjust the responsiveness and efficiency of their health care systems are evident across the globe. In the seemingly constant search for solutions providing both better health outcomes and manageable costs, the directions and designs for change are neither consistent...

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Management in medicine or medics in management? The changing role of doctors in German hospitals

Bode, Ingo; Maerker, Markus - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 27 (2014) 5, pp. 395-405

training or in a general expectation that physicians striving for higher ranks within a hospital's hierarchy should exhibit … involvement in management. In addition, policies of hospital owners affecting management roles prove diverse. They range from … the hospital system concerning the role of doctors in hospital management. This, to some extent, sits uneasy with key …

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Exploring 30 years of UK public services management reform – the case of health care

Ferlie, Ewan - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 30 (2017) 6-7, pp. 615-625

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a personal interpretation of the nature and impact of alternative narratives of public management reform evident in the UK since the 1980s. These reforms are examined through the prism of alternative bodies of public management scholarship. They are...

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Modernising pathology services: modelling effective IT project collaboration

Wainwright, David W.; Shaw, Christopher S. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 26 (2013) 4, pp. 268-282

‐organisational IT systems across NHS hospital pathology departments. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers adopted an … stakeholders has the potential to inform more effective strategies for modernisation of hospital clinical services such as …

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