Just Managing: Power and Culture in the National Health Service

Harrison, Stephen; Hunter, David; Marnoch, Gordon & Pollitt, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0333513126 / ISBN 13: 9780333513125

Published by Macmillan Press, London, 1992

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Library sticker on the spine, inside of the cover and on the FEP. Stamp on title page. Successive reorganisations of the British NHS have been designed to optimise effective resource use and to hold professionals to account for what they do. The various changes have proceeded in isolation from any evidence that they will succeed. This book reviews all published research evidence on the organisation and management of the NHS and reports findings of a major study carried out by the authors on the introduction of general management into the NHS using two key concepts:Power and Culture. The book considers the implications of the research findings for the major market principles and competition into the NHS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Just Managing: Power and Culture in the National Health Service
• Publisher: Macmillan Press, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333513126
• ISBN 13: 9780333513125
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Government Reference Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health & Medicine

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Synopsis

Successive reorganisations of the British NHS have been designed to optimise effective resource use and to hold professionals to account for what they do. The various changes have proceeded in isolation from any evidence that they will succeed. This book reviews all published research evidence on the organisation and management of the NHS and reports findings of a major study carried out by the authors on the introduction of general management into the NHS using two key Power and Culture. The book considers the implications of the research findings for the major market principles and competition into the NHS