Excellence in Health Care Management - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632040327 ISBN 13: 9780632040322

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

Synopsis

This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals, and management trainees.

About this title

About the Author

Alison Morton-Cooper MEd, RGN is Research Fellow at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Edinburgh; Margaret Bamford PhD, MSc, RN, has a Senior Research Fellowship at the Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, and is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

From the Back Cover

The nature of working relationships in the NHS is changing. The development of a market-oriented approach to health care delivery has been central to these changes, most noticeably seen with the advent of resource management, the development of the internal economy for health care and the development of Trusts and GP fundholders.

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the key issues and dilemmas facing health care managers today. It provides the broad base of subjects which together inform current opinion in meeting present day challenges and aspirations to excellence in care provision.

The book is divided into sections covering the key issues in health care management. The first section looks at attaining excellence in human resources management and includes a chapter devoted to health careers in the twenty-first century. Key concepts in quality, finance and information management are clearly explained in the second part of the book. Section three covers funding in health care education and training, directly challenging some of the common assumptions held by employers, educationalists and human resource developers. The final section considers the politics of health care and sets the scene for effective, efficient health care management today and in the future.

With contributions from experienced practitioners in health care management, this book provides an authoritative introduction to critical issues in contemporary health care management for students, manager, health care practitioners, policy-makers and educators.

Key features are:

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• Addresses the problems and issues relating to quality management
• 
  
• Approachable, up-to-date with current thinking
• 
  
• Wide appeal for students and practicing managers
• 
  
• Takes a contemporary, theoretical and practical perspective

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the key issues and dilemmas facing health care managers today. It provides the broad base of subjects which together inform current opinion in meeting present day challenges and aspirations to excellence in care provision.

The book is divided into sections covering the key issues in health care management. The first section looks at attaining excellence in human resources management and includes a chapter devoted to health careers in the twenty-first century. Key concepts in quality, finance and information management are clearly explained in the second part of the book. Section three covers funding in health care education and training, directly challenging some of the common assumptions held by employers, educationalists and human resource developers. The final section considers the politics of health care and sets the scene for effective, efficient health care management today and in the future.

With contributions from experienced practitioners in health care management, this book provides an authoritative introduction to critical issues in contemporary health care management for students, manager, health care practitioners, policy-makers and educators.

Key features are:

• 
  
• Addresses the problems and issues relating to quality management
• 
  
• Approachable, up-to-date with current thinking
• 
  
• Wide appeal for students and practicing managers
• 
  
• Takes a contemporary, theoretical and practical perspective

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0632040327
• ISBN 13: 9780632040322
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Morton Cooper Alison, Bamford Margaret