...Pushkar Silwal; Natalia D'Souza; Trudi Jane Aspden; Shane Scahill Purpose The study aims to estimate the prevalence of workplace bullying, personal and work-related impacts, reporting practices for bullying, and the reasons for not reporting bullying incidents in the New Zealand pharmacy sector...

... completing BPharm programs after 2002, who had left or were seriously considering leaving the New Zealand pharmacy profession, were invited to comment on future-focused pharmacy documents, and the current direction of pharmacy in New Zealand. An online questionnaire was open December 2018 to February...

...Tim Tenbensel; Pushkar Silwal; Lisa Walton Purpose In 2016, New Zealand's Ministry of Health introduced the System Level Measures Framework which marked a departure from health targets and pay-for-performance incentives towards an approach based on local, collaborative approaches to health system...

... of probing perceptions of quality and safety and an important set of insights into progress in New Zealand DHBs. Quality improvement New Zealand Clinical governance Surveys Health and safety A long line of research has explored the perspectives and experiences of healthcare professionals...

... the survey and also considers the intention of the structure as proposed by parliament, and board activities or what the board actually does. This enables a comparison of intention with outcomes and perception of those outcomes. Government policy New Zealand Management Governance Corporate...

... 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...

...Nicola North; Frances Hughes Purpose Recent New Zealand reports have identified the nursing workforce for its potential to make a significant contribution to increased productivity in health services. The purpose of this paper is to review critically the recent and current labour approaches...

...Russell Mannion; Huw T.O. Davies; Stephen Buetow Purpose This paper aims to describe the introduction of pay‐for‐performance in New Zealand primary health care; compare this policy development with analogous English initiatives; discuss the risk of unintended, adverse consequences of the New...

... New Zealand hospices are thematically analysed in order to identify consistent and recurring sources of conflict both within and between disciplinary groups. Findings The paper finds that motivational differences, poor conflict management, interdisciplinary tensions, divergent attitudes towards...

... to the availability of radiologists (as a radiologist must be present when patients are being scanned). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Hospital waiting lists Radiologists Systems theory Hospital management Image scanners New Zealand In health systems through out the western world...

...Steve McKenna; Julia Richardson This paper investigates the managerial life and experiences of a group of service leaders in one region of the New Zealand health service. Through a complexity map methodology, creative interviewing, participant storytelling and presentation of their experiential...

...Robin Gauld Health sector restructuring has been in vogue, but no country has engaged in as much health sector restructuring as New Zealand where, in a decade, there have been four different public health sector structures. This article discusses New Zealand’s four structures with an emphasis...

...Alan Lowe The purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation and understanding of developments in casemix and related information systems at a large regional hospital, Health Waikato (HW), in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. The themes will be explicated and theorised, drawing...

... Supplier relations Hospitals New Zealand Variability occurs in service organisations due to demand‐side (customer) and supply‐side (capacity) issues. Uncertainty in demand happens when customer arrivals cannot be predicted, and because there is variation in the length of each customer‐provider...

... of consultation. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Doctors Communications Psychology Consultations Health care New Zealand In recent years, the issue of doctor‐patient communication has been an area identified as playing a critical role in patients’ psychosocial reaction to cancer. Some work...

...Frank Sligo; Anna Jameson; Margie Comrie Immigration by Pacific Island people into New Zealand has raised issues of equal access to a range of government and social services, including health information. This study reports on an investigation of access to information by women in Pacific Island...