...Adelaide Maria Ansah Ofei; Yennuten Parima; Gloria Achempim-Ansong; Theresa Barnes Purpose Nurse managers’ planning practices are essential to the practice of management in the unit, and the overall efficiency of the healthcare service delivery. This study aims to explore the planning practices...

... of the governance model. Findings – The research found that the move to a new governance model did not proceed as planned. It highlighted the importance of staff commitment, the complexity of adopting a new philosophical approach and the undue influence of key personalities as key determining factors...

... Publishing Limited 2014 Focus groups England Planning Involvement General practice Patients Patient involvement in the planning of health services is often promoted as a necessary adjunct to patient-centred care, but it is often assumed that patients will share the same values...

...John Edmonstone The education commissioning system established in the NHS in England in the mid‐1990s is facing a series of reviews. A major challenge which it faces is how integrated workforce planning is addressed. Newly‐emerging approaches to planning are reviewed and the nature of “integration...

...Carol Barker; Colin Thunhurst; Duncan Ross This paper describes work undertaken in Pakistan within a project to strengthen the health planning system, aimed at improving the capacity of the planning cells to identify priorities and develop broad strategic guidelines. The work starts from...

...Timothy Milewa It is often suggested that professional and managerial attitudes significantly delimit the impact of new structures for enhancing the role and influence of service users in health and social care planning. Considers the existence and clarity of such managerial attitudes...

... there is a tremendous flaw. The US currently has no national policy or plan to regulate the number, specialty choice, or distribution of its physicians. Since a majority of health‐care costs are controlled by physicians and the growth of physician supply has been linked to rising health care costs, a plan to control...

... UP Limited 1995 Brazil Decentralization Decision making Information systems Management Planning The process of health service decentralization and the idea of setting the unified health system in Brazil goes back to 1963 when the issue was discussed at the third National Health...