... 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 Nevertheless, certain differences...

... liability company under the Companies Code 1973 (Act 179) may operate as a Private Commercial HI Scheme” (MOH, 2003, p. 16). Government policy Human resources management Developing countries Health services Public sector reform Community planning Majority of governments in Sub-Saharan...

... (Sheaff et al., 2009) and ongoing negotiations to reach a required agreement (Chreim et al., 2012). Professor Frédéric Gilbert can be contacted at: gilbert.frederic@uqam.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Change management Policy Public sector reform Primary...

... Leadership Politics Quality improvement Public sector reform Health services Securing transformational change in health systems is viewed as a top priority if they are going to be sustainable financially and able to provide care of high quality that is free at the point of use. Health systems...

... services Denmark Public sector reform The American novelist John Updike's (1995) introduction to the medical novel “House of God” discusses a widely held belief about doctors' emotional distance to patients in medical encounters: In the interviews, the doctors were asked to characterise...

.... Teresa Carvalho can be contacted at: teresa.carvalho@ua.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Nurses Professionalism Health care Hospitals Public sector reform Qualitative research Medical personnel Portugal There has always been a close connection between professionals...

... a new tool. Health care Public sector reform Organizational performance Australia There have been considerable worldwide concerns about hospital performance in patient safety and quality (HMSO, 2001 ; McLean and Walsh, 2003 ; World Health Organisation, 2001 ; Committee on Quality...

... shaped the negotiations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Germany United Kingdom Public sector reform In the context of New Public Management, the micro‐level of governing health service delivery has become a central area of reform and with this doctors...

... that the workplace has been through over the past years. Anne‐Mette Hjalager can be contacted at: anne‐mette.hjalager@advance1.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Trade unions Nurses Hospital management Public sector reform Change management Denmark Trade union membership...

... in the 1960s, an administrative solution that was not seen in Norway until the mid‐1970s. Haldor Byrkjeflot can be contacted at: haldor.byrkjeflot@rokkan.uib.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Public sector reform Hospitals Health services Scandinavia The Scandinavian...

... be contacted at: mg23@york.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 National Health Service Organizational change Public sector reform Decentralisation is a dominant theme in health sector reform in both developed and developing nations. Advocates argue that decentralisation can...