... Comprehensive primary health care (PHC) models are seldom implemented in high income countries, in part due to their contested legitimacy in neoliberal policy environments. This article explores how merging affected the perceived legitimacy of independent community health organisations in Victoria, Australia...

...Chiara Pomare; Kate Churruca; Janet C. Long; Louise A. Ellis; Jeffrey Braithwaite Purpose Hospitals are constantly redeveloping to improve functioning and modernise the delivery of safe and high-quality care. In Australia, it is expected that different stakeholders have the opportunity...

... and leaders in organisations). With this cohort we aimed to gain an understanding of the organisational contexts in which PP operated in the Perth region of Western Australia. Contact was made with programme managers in organisations that employed peer providers. Characteristic of the snowball sampling...

... underpinning successful implementation of OHL. Australia Health care Continuous improvement Health services Healthcare Organizational health literacy (OHL) is defined as an organization’s capacity to ensure programs, services and information are easy to navigate, understand and use (Brach...

... between the federal and state governments (AIHW, 2016). Australia’s National Health Performance Framework, sets out nine health services dimensions by which to assess health system performance in delivering quality care. Quality is considered an “integral and overarching” part of the performance framework...

... derivative works of this article (for both commercial & non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Australia Communication Decision making...

... in health technologies. The purpose of this paper is to consider the challenges and opportunities for disinvestment policy decisions in Australia. It discusses the implementation of the Choosing Wisely campaign and the need for rigorous evaluation of such campaigns in the Australian healthcare system...

...Richard Norman; Suzanne Robinson Purpose – As Australia struggles to meet increased demand for healthcare and contain expenditure there has been a focus on primary care and its role in demand management and keeping people out of expensive secondary care. However, with domestic policy struggling...

...-based practice Australia Knowledge translation Sexual health Perhaps now more than ever, the work of the Practice Nurse is pivotal to quality healthcare (Gray et al., 2014). Practice Nurses are baccalaureate-prepared, registered nurses who complement the role of general practitioners...

...). For example, Colic-Peisker and Walker (2003) state that this “reception” can relates to the: Interestingly, Colic-Peisker and Walker (2003) who researched refugee migrants in Australia, argued there were three essential elements of human capital which aide acculturation and the formation of social...

...Sally Nathan; Jeffrey Braithwaite; Niamh Stephenson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the views of community representatives participating in a large health service in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-sectional survey of 49 community representatives...

... Limited 2014 Australia Health services Quality improvement Pathology Australia shares a challenge faced by many countries; to reduce health spending as a proportion of its economy (OECD, 2002). However, the challenge is more complex than just cost reduction. Concurrent needs exist...

... and secondary care. Design/methodology/approach In total, 28 clinicians and clinician managers throughout the state of Victoria, Australia, participated in focus groups to provide advice on the development of a clinical leadership program in quality and safety. An inductive, thematic analysis was completed...

... – perhaps most significantly, declining funding and increasing regulation. Design/methodology/approach The data come from ten interviews with healthcare managers, spanning for‐profit, non‐profit, and government legal forms and hospital and nursing home sub‐industries in both Queensland, Australia...

... recently in Australia have we seen attempts being made to question the dominance of heroic approaches to leadership in healthcare and to encourage the adoption of other approaches such as distributed and relational leadership (Fulop and Day, 2010). It would be fair to say these terms are not in wide...

.../methodology/approach Using a cross‐sectional survey design, data were collected in 2004 from providers in 41 services in Victoria, Australia, recruited using purposeful sampling. Respondents within each service worked as a group to complete a structured interview that collected quantitative and qualitative...

... aspects of HPWS in place and that there has been little consideration of HPWS in health system reform. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on a series of correlation studies using survey data from hospitals in Australia, supplemented by qualitative data collection and analysis. To demonstrate...

... problem in rural Australia and doctor drought is added to it. IMGs are seen as a key solution to the rural doctor shortage. The main parties relating to these incidents and policies are: the medical profession, rural communities, non‐governmental organisations such as the Australian...

... Patients Software tools Medical care Australia A major issue for the health system is the overcrowding of the Emergency Department (ED), leading to access block, which affects not only the ED but the efficacy of a hospital's overall operation (Kunz Howard, 2005). Resultant impact on patients...

... and managers play a key role in building social identification within the team and that organizations need to understand this role and provide recognition, reward, education and support to their middle and lower managers. Performance management systems Australia Working practices Hospitals Human...