...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...

...David Phillip Wood; Catherine A. Robinson; Rajan Nathan; Rebecca McPhillips Purpose Despite repeated policy initiatives, progress in improving patient safety in the National Health Service (NHS) in England over the past two decades has been slow. The NHS Patient Safety Strategy (NHS England...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode National Health Service England Implementation Organisational change Context Agency Treatment Escalation Plan Normalisation process theory Case study National Institute for Health Research Collaboration...

...Gregory Maniatopoulos; David J. Hunter; Jonathan Erskine; Bob Hudson Purpose Following publication of a new vision for the English National Health Service (NHS) in 2014, known as the NHS Five-Year Forward View, a Vanguard programme was introduced by NHS England charged with the task of designing...

..., the research community should publicly acknowledge the universality of this problem in order to bring about meaningful change. National Health Service Austerity Health research Healthcare staff It is increasingly difficult to conduct research with frontline healthcare staff in the UK...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode National Health Service Public sector reform Privatization Ownership Corporations Not-for-profit organizations Since the 1980s, neo-liberal “reform...

... used this combination of approaches to address this issue. New Zealand Evidence-based practice Hospital management Inequality Health services sector National Health Service All health care systems are facing ever greater demands due to aging populations and increasing opportunities...

...Ajay Aggarwal; Joanna Davies; Richard Sullivan Purpose – Missed appointments constitute a significant problem in the UK National Health Service (NHS) and this remains an area where improvements could yield substantial efficiency savings. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that nudge policies...

... would be chosen to provide services to its resident population. Autonomy National health service Community nursing Marketization The past two decades have seen a trend in the management of public services to introduce mechanisms found more usually in the private sector. A prominent...

... negative behaviour in the general workplace. Adams (1992) did much to raise the profile of bullying in the workplace, identified problems within the nursing profession. Four years later Ball wrote that “Bullying is thought to be a significant problem within the National Health Service”, asking...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Engagement Shared leadership Junior doctors Open space technology Doctors United Kingdom Competences Health services National Health Service Leadership development Policy initiatives in the UK and across the globe highlight...

... communities situated in the English National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with clinical and managerial staff from two English NHS acute trusts, supplemented with meeting observations and documentary analysis. Findings Attitudes toward...

...Aoife M. McDermott; Mary A. Keating; Paula Hyde; Paul Sparrow; Ruth Boaden; Claire Harris Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine National Health Service (NHS) employee perspectives of how high performance human resource (HR) practices contribute to their performance. Design/methodology...

... structure impacts on the role ”, Journal of Nursing Management , Vol. 12 No. 1 , pp. 13 ‐ 21 . Checkland , K. (2012), “ Commissioning in the English National Health Service: what's the problem? ”, Journal of Social Policy , Vol. 41 No. 3 , pp. 533 ‐ 550 . Checkland , K...

...Imelda McDermott; Kath Checkland; Stephen Harrison; Stephanie Snow; Anna Coleman Purpose The language used by National Health Service (NHS) “commissioning” managers when discussing their roles and responsibilities can be seen as a manifestation of “identity work”, defined as a process...

...Alistair Hewison; Nicola Gale; Rowena Yeats; Jonathan Shapiro Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an evaluation project conducted to investigate the impact of two staff engagement programmes introduced to four National Health Service (NHS) hospital Trusts in England...

..., as a spur to further debate and research in this area. Ross Millar can be contacted at: r.millar@bham.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 England Health organization and management Health care Social enterprise Hybridity Health and social care National Health Service...

... and policies are co‐created and thus become more relevant to the context of application and more useful for practitioners. Knowledge sharing Evidence‐based practice Evidence Health care Primary care National Health Service Public policy In this paper, we take a reflective stance...

... Limited 2011 Management development National Health Service Innovation Primary care Teaching Pedagogy United Kingdom The National Health Service was established in 1948 and has grown to become the world's largest publicly funded health service, born out of a long‐held ideal...

...John Storey Purpose The article seeks to explore the practical and theoretical implications of the ways in which senior figures in the National Health Service (NHS) interpret the role of the centre in relation to the delivery units of the health service. This is important in the light of recent...