... promotion and multi-disciplinary care. As such, they are viewed as one of very few settings across Australia where service delivery is akin to a comprehensive PHC model (Hurley et al., 2010 ; Swerissen et al., 2018). Community health services work alongside general practice and private...

...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...

...). 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 approach, the managers then recommended...

..., as is the sequence of implementation. Health services seeking to implement OHL need to understand these mechanisms so they can successfully operationalize OHL. This study advances the concept of OHL operationalization by contributing to the theory underpinning successful implementation of OHL. Australia...

... uses their voice to better understand contextual factors that situate and impact on hospital quality and safety towards understanding the mixed effectiveness of hospital quality improvement strategies. In Australia, a review to investigate a cluster of potentially avoidable deaths of seven babies...

... and decision-makers at the MNCLHD. For context, the MNCLHD encompasses more than 3,000 clinical staff providing services to 212,193 residents living in rural and coastal settings over a geographical area of 4,376 square miles of NSW, which is the largest state in Australia (NSW Ministry of Health, 2015...

... 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...

...), organizational (Baicker and Chandra, 2004), and economic benefits associated with a strong primary care sector (Fleming et al., 2000). Organizational behaviour Primary care Evidence-based practice Australia Knowledge translation Sexual health Perhaps now more than ever, the work...

...). 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...

... that cross-departmental boundaries. © Emerald Group Publishing 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...

... 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...

... and blended approaches might have to offer healthcare. Clinician manager Leadership Hybridity Healthcare reform Australia Hospitals Health services Leadership, and the engagement of clinicians in the management of healthcare services, is one of the “magic bullets” put forward by policy...

.../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...

..., rather than an outsider's observations. Emergency treatment Information systems Patients Software tools Medical care Australia The aim of the detailed consultation process with ED staff and bed management planning staff was to define User expectations: What do you expect? and Functional...

... mechanisms between individual or group actions and social structures (Danermark et al., 2001 , p. 182). This would enable us to make a critical sense out of the narratives projected by the newspapers. Health services Medical personnel Rural regions Skills shortages Australia...

... collection rather then relying simply on the views of senior managers (Hutchinson and Purcell, 2003 ; Wright and Boswell, 2002 ; Kinnie et al., 2005). This paper reports on a two stage case study of a medium sized rural hospital in Australia. Stage one involved interviews and focus group...