...’ discourse about privacy reveals how new technologies and laws challenge existing practices of information control within and between professional groups in health care, with implications not only for patient privacy, but also for the role of information control in professions more generally. Design...

... professional cultures is crucial for understanding each profession’s response to the reforms” (Degeling et al., 2003, p. 649). Given the increasing importance of general practice, and the changing nature of its scope, this paper helps to address this void. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015...

...Terry Sloan, Anneke Fitzgerald, Kathryn J. Hayes, Zoe Radnor, Suzanne Robinson and Amrik Sohal; Stephen Timmons; Frank Coffey; Paraskevas Vezyridis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of lean methods in an Emergency Department (ED) and the role of the professions...

... received limited research attention. The value of the study lies less in its ability to explain specifically why physiotherapists adopted or rejected the new system, but in describing the conditions and consequences of change that might be translated to other professions, contexts and interventions...

... the professions' integrating/disintegrating activities. In the internal social context of CAP, the professions adapt to productivity‐enhancing new public management (NPM) principles, resulting in integrating effects between the different professions and administrative management in the CAP units. However, CAP...

... of other's and their own risk, in a context where ambiguity and doubt exists over the value and boundaries of their purpose and judgements. How one particular group of professionals deals with these dilemmas and issues is explored below. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Professions Values Risk...

...Jenny Owen; Kay Phillips Current government policy places great emphasis on increased collaboration between disciplines and professions within health care, as in public services across the board. To date, analyses of doctor‐manager relations have tended to focus on equipping doctors with management...