...’ 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...

... by examining youth healthcare within the changing context of primary care. To understand professional identity, it is important to first understand what constitutes a profession. Although there is no universal definition (Millerson, 1964 ; Freidson, 1994), the management of professional knowledge typically...

...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 values articulated as personal in the articulation of identity and role by senior professionals in the study. The conclusion is that professional actors are adept at bringing a variety of rhetorical resources into their articulation of identity and purpose. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Professions...

...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...