...Joy Furnival; Kieran Walshe; Ruth Boaden Purpose Healthcare regulation is one means to address quality challenges in healthcare systems and is carried out using compliance, deterrence and/or improvement approaches. The four countries of the UK provide an opportunity to explore and compare...

...Mary Dixon‐Woods; Justin Waring; Sue Kilminster; Gerry McGivern; Michael Fischer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore general practitioners' (GPs') and psychiatrists' views and experiences of transparent forms of medical regulation in practice, as well as those of medical regulators...

...Mary Dixon‐Woods; Justin Waring; Sue Kilminster; Justin Waring; Mary Dixon‐Woods; Karen Yeung Purpose This paper aims to outline and comment on the changes to medical regulation in the UK that provide the background to a special issue of the Journal of Health Organization and Management...

... on regulatory processes, the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviour and outcome variations in workplace innovation and improvement. Findings This study identifies co‐existing modes of regulation, which interact with individual behaviour, generating strategies differentiated as entrepreneurial or conformist...

... but highly regulated. This thesis is explored here in the context of self‐governing hospitals (SGHs). The characteristics of a market are set out elsewhere. Even though the White Paper is terse and incomplete, the rules which will determine the behaviour of SGHs are clearly set out and may inhibit...