Table 1

Institutional aspects brought up by the five actor groups based on the regulative, normative and culture-cognitive pillars

RegulativeNormativeCulture-cognitive
ManagersIncreased financial responsibility generated information about post-discharge careStrong incentives to minimise post-discharge care. How to involve other professions differedThe VBRP imposed a holistic perspective on healthcare, which managers embraced differently
Management may have additional external demands to take into account, affecting the response to the new commissioning contractHighly influenced by spine surgeons' perceptionTime to comprehend and understand the new contract is important in finding strategies when adapting the business
Crucial with a good dialogue with the commissioning organisation
Spine surgeonsIncreased financial responsibility generated information about post-discharge careThe significance of involving other healthcare professionals in spine surgery was debated and whether post-discharge care should be their responsibilityBroaden their perspective to see the entire care chain instead of only the surgical procedure
PhysiotherapistsInformation about the VBRP was buffered through management and spine surgeonsOpposed to their morals when physiotherapy was seen as a cost that should be minimised rather than a quality aspectDifficult for physiotherapist to find their way of contributing when the focus was on how to facilitate spine surgery
NursesLess informed about the new regulative frameworkIt was unfortunate that quality aspects within nursing had to suffer in order to better facilitate surgeonsNurses were responsible for providing adequate care from a nursing perspective but functioned also as a facilitator for spine surgery. The introduction of the VBRP refined the role of nurses to focus more on one of the two aspects
Some received new tasks to ease the workload of surgeons to increase efficiencyTaking responsibility for quality aspects within nursing requires air in the system to allow reflection and quality assessment
AdministratorsThe VBRP entailed more manual auditing when assessing invoices and medical recordsIncreased workload that also made administrators dependent on surgeons. However, the positive attitude from spine surgeons made the workload acceptableImpossible to do their work without supporting infrastructure

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