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Showing 1 to 20 of 785 for “"NHS"”.
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Corporate governance in the NHS
… and academics. Managerial reforms of the NHS introduced refashioned District Health Authorities (DHAs) which mimic the role and structure of the Company board. The research reported in this thesis is an assessment of corporate governance in post reform English DHAs. The research examines …
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Iatrogenic Harm : Redress and the NHS
… how effectively or otherwise litigation and NHS complaints procedures redress ‘harm’ suffered by patients through treatment under the NHS. I argue that patients’ entitlement to redress within the NHS is founded on corrective justice principles, requiring one who harms another without …
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Variation in NHS utilisation of vault cytology post-hysterectomy
Hysterectomy is commonly performed but there is scant evidence concerning appropriate follow-up by vaginal vault cytology testing. This observational, retrospective cohort study, using routinely collected data, linked women’s entire cervical screening histories with their operation details and …
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QUALITY HEALTHCARE IN NHS HOSPITALS: THE IMPACT OF PRESCRIBING SYSTEMS
The National Health Service (NHS) focuses on quality of care as a priority. With the NHS planning to go paperless by 2018, more hospitals in England are making the transition from paper to electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems. The aim of this programme of work was to understand and explore …
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Cognitive factors in NHS staff responses to violence and aggression
NHS staff frequently experience violence and aggression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is amongst the potential psychological consequences. Using a prospective design, the present study sought to establish whether cognitive factors, specified in Ehlers and Clark's (2000) model, could …
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Developing information systems technology within NHS wound clinics: an evaluation
… clinical level of the National Health Service (NHS) healthcare organisation. Chronic wound healing is a complex activity, with a long history and strong dependence on data, as observed and recorded by clinicians, to treat and heal patients. Wound clinics that are part of the NHS, which is …
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Power, management and complexity in the NHS: a Foucauldian perspective
… of the discourse of managerialism in the NHS secondary care sector in Wales. Its central intent is to destabilise the dominant thinking about NHS management practice and to evoke intellectual debate about alternative discourses of management that ontologically perceive the organisation as …
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The process and impact of special measures upon an NHS trust
NHS Trusts that perform poorly in inspections by the regulator (Care Quality Commission) are rated inadequate and may be placed into special measures by NHS Improvement. There is a paucity of research on the process and impact of special measures. The purpose of this research was to explore how a …
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Exploring occupational irritant hand dermatitis amongst healthcare workers in NHS Grampian.
… this thesis was to explore OIHD amongst HCWs in NHS Grampian. In order to provide a broad overview of the subject matter, the thesis used a three-study approach to explore, appraise and assess OIHD amongst HCWs. The three studies made a stand-alone contribution in an effort to: i) understand the …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
… An increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) provider units, the NHS trusts, are making ‘innovation’ part of their strategies; however, a paucity of published theory, guidance, or information within the sector means how and why a trust should invest in and develop their innovation …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… through autoethnographic research with a NHS arts for mental health service called Create, which works with adults categorised as having severe and enduring mental health needs. Drawing upon the material-semiotic approach of feminist technoscience studies and its concept of enactment, I …
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Evaluation of Information Systems Development in the NHS Using NIMSAD Framework
… role in the new internal market system of the NHS. Through the rapid development of a computer-based information system the immediate needs of the purchaser and the provider were satisfied, and development of the individuals and the organisation took place. Subsequent to the development, a …
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Managing within the challenges & tensions facing the 21st Century UK NHS Managers: NHS Managers’ perceptions of their public image & the implications for their self and work identity.
The UK NHS which is the largest organisation in Europe provides high quality healthcare free at the point of delivery to all its citizens. NHS managers play an instrumental role within it as they are expected to implement the various government led reforms designed to make the NHS an increasingly …
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Increasing evidence informed decision making practices among senior non-clinical NHS managers.
… based evidence among senior managers within the NHS, and a failure to consistently integrate research findings into the decision making process. While much is known about the decision making and information behaviour of clinical staff and policy makers, there is little knowledge of this for …
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Understanding leadership and management development in a health board of NHS Scotland.
… and Management Development in a Health Board of NHS Scotland, is completely written by Jireh Hooi Inn Seow for submission to meet the partial requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy. This doctoral research is in the field of leadership and management development. It explores and seeks to …
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