..., behaviours, and relationships that supports the public’s trust in doctors (RCP, p. 45). Interestingly, neither the NHS guidelines for “Maintaining High Professional Standards” (DoH, 2003), which governs the professional standards and practices expected of clinicians in the NHS, nor NHS Employers...

...Lise Elliott; Naomi Chambers Purpose This paper uses data from an ethnographic study of a group of NHS community nurses in England, to analyse their work using labour process theory. A theory influenced by Marxist thinking, which is concerned with the examination of the labour process. This study...

...James Duncan Alexander Purpose The paper investigates English National Health Service (NHS) organisations partnering with private companies, a form commonly known as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP). Successive governments have promoted PPPs as a way of improving the delivery of health care...

... Respondents were mostly employed by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) or the private sector. Many participants reported that demands on their service had increased compared with before the onset of the pandemic. The need to address the backlog of cases arising from shutdowns was the main reason...

...Rebecca Wilson; Yvette Winnard Purpose Missed appointments within the National Health Service (NHS) are a drain on resources, associated with not only considerable time and cost implications, but also sub-optimal health outcomes. This literature review aims to explore non-attendance within the NHS...

...Martin Powell Purpose This article applies the whistleblowing stages model to whistleblowing journeys as seen in British National Health Service (NHS) Inquiries. Design/methodology/approach It provides a qualitative analysis of Inquiry Reports since 2001, using Interpretive Content Analysis...

... from nine specialties, with the most common being respiratory medicine. Three organisations had two Chief Registrars, so 18 NHS acute organisations were involved in the programme. The RCPs supported the cohort through commissioning a development programme, which was provided by the Faculty of Medical...

...Andrew Robson; Fiona Robson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of the key antecedents of leave intention demonstrated by nurses employed in UK National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach – Survey assessment of a sample of 433 nurses employed...

... might anticipate that this role-sending process is very influential in creating the role behaviour which determines the enactment of the change agent role. NHS Human resource management Organizational change Communication Qualitative research Organizational restructuring So...

... entry (CPOE) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) at the meso and micro levels, within the context of the National Programme for IT in the English National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach – To analyse these multi-level dynamics, the authors blend Rogers...

... Care System (NHS) is undergoing important changes in this regard. Voice and co-production among patients, health care services and professionals have become more common and important also because of forms of collective action. Professionals themselves often belong to or promote such associations...

... in this process. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with ED staff in a UK NHS hospital. Findings – Lean was met with more engagement and enthusiasm by the professionals than is usually reported in the literature. The main reasons for this were a combination...

... lays the basis for the “renewal” of the traditional public sector concept of the model employer. Empirically, the paper draws on a survey of trade union representatives from 238 workplaces and a case study of a hospital trust. The data reveal that employment relations in the NHS are more collectivist...

... been reshaped over that time and how the pattern of service developments outside the hospital has altered over the same period. © MCB UP Limited 2000 NHS Home care Hospitals This paper reviews the changing boundary between hospital and home care over the last two decades...

...Brian Ferguson; Peter Kelly; Amanda Georgiou; George Barnes; Barbara Sutherland; Bill Woodbridge Aims to assess retrospectively the payback from NHS reactive research programmes in the Northern and Yorkshire region. A questionnaire was sent to all recipients of regional reactive research programme...

...Keith E. Gray; Deb Ghosh Introduces the relationship marketing paradigm as a means of analysing the purchaser‐provider relationship within the NHS internal market. This focus is justified in the context of the limitations of orthodox economic analysis. The research evidence is based upon a national...

... professionals' perceptions of: the physical appearance of managers; the roles of managers in the NHS. The comments made by the respondents indicate a disturbing degree of hostility towards and misapprehension about managers in the reformed NHS. Journal of Management in Medicine 7,5 48 Professionals in Health...