... and interpretivist paradigm assumes that several realities exist. The following describes the authors' values, viewpoints, and positions. The first author has two decades of experience working for the NHS within Acute and Mental Health Trusts, as well as for an independent charitable organisation working to improve...

... the fundamental structure of the subject field. Findings In addition, this study proposes a future research agenda revolving around three main themes such as (1) telemedicine, (2) mental health and (3) medical information. Originality/value This study underscores the significance, implications...

... of this study is to identify the resources and constraints that influence managers' mental health and better understand how they are affected by them. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach was chosen to document the resources, the constraints as well as their consequences on managers...

...Jody Ralph; Laurie A. Freeman; A. Dana Ménard; Kendall Soucie Over-reliance on employee assistance programmes and other individualized approaches to virtual care were not well-received. An integrative systems-based approach is needed to address the multifaceted mental health outcomes...

... is twofold: first, to present patient-level utilisation patterns of hospital-based mental health services funded by private health insurers; and second, to examine the implications of the findings for planning and delivering private mental health services in Australia. Analysing private health...

...Timmy Frawley; Annabel Meehan; Aoife De Brún Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of organisational and structural change on the evolution of quality and safety in health organisations, specifically in mental health services. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered...

... of policy to practice in the care of adult clients of mental health services and more specifically, adult consumers who are also parents. Mental health clinicians, as other staff in clinical sites, function as “street-level bureaucrats” (Lipsky, 1980, 2010), who as Lipsky (1980) conceived it, make public...

...) breach and types of organisational justice on variables important to retention among allied health professionals: mental health and organisational commitment. The potential effects of justice on the negative outcomes of breach were examined. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple regressions...

... . Inequity and Madness: Psychosocial and Human Rights Issues . New York, NY : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers   2001 . 225 pp. (hardback) , ISBN: 0 306 46674 0 © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Ethics Mental health Human rights ...

...Carol A. Rea; David M. Rea The involvement of service users is extolled in National Service Frameworks and, in Wales, is one of seven standards set out in the National Service Framework for mental health services. National Service Frameworks have an important role in the UK government’s performance...

... in the context of one attempt to involve users in mental health care planning. The existence of latent and explicit managerial parameters to the role played by users in the planning of services was confirmed by the research at a very general level. Perhaps inevitably though, even in relation to a very specific...

...Silvia Sbaraini; John Carpenter Reports on a survey of 222 mental health service users in two health service trusts, which provides evidence to support and elaborate Wood’s analysis of barriers to effective complaints procedures. Identifies key confounding factors such as: lack of awareness...

...Daphne Wood Complaint procedures are meant to provide an effective safeguard for users of services, but they do not always work well. Applies an analysis of three views of power to complaint procedures in mental health services. Identifies three factors which might affect the effectiveness...

... satisfaction and feelings of autonomy. Establishes the need for more cross‐national investigation of the relationship of management to worker job satisfaction. China England Germany Job Satisfaction Mental Health Russia Journal of Management in Medicine 7,6 40 Management and Psychiatrists' Job...

... practices;develop assessment and priority rating systems which combine health and social care variables; implement relevant and accessible information systems; and develop adequate, standardized outcome measures for mental health services. Improving Health and Social Care in Mental Illness Services...

...Eilish McAuliffe; Malcolm MacLachlan The advent of “consumerism” in the NHS puts an increased importance on finding out what consumers of health services think about the treatment which they receive. Describes a consumer satisfaction survey of mental health services. The focus is not on the outcome...