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Showing 1 to 20 of 249 for “"National health service"”.
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Counselling Psychology in a Changing National Health Service
… group treatment for obesity with an NHS service in South East England, which included the ASQ and BMI measures at Week 1 and Week 12 of treatment. The change in BMI was entered as the dependent variable for the regression in SPSS and the five attachment dimensions were entered as …
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Implementing management information systems in the National Health Service
… action research at the North Western Regional Health Authority. </p> <p>There are seven Chapters in this thesis. Chapters One and Two examine the nature of the problem addressed by this research; the project history, ontological assumptions and research strategy. Chapter Three examines the …
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Exploring evidence based management in the National Health Service
… is especially important in the context of the health service that has, since (May 1997) enthusiastically adopted evidence based medicine as its method of health delivery. To develop a practical explanation for policy makers and managers on how and where evidence based management is used …
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Performance evaluation in the National Health Service - a systems approach
… Drawing on questionnaire and interview data from health service and civil service staff, and secondary data, current performance evaluation and planning processes in the NHS are described and some problems identified. To test the hypothesis that attention to systemic factors could improve …
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From here to diversity : ethnicity in the national health service
… the ground-breaking report by Brent Community Health Council (CHC) (1981) into the standard of health care provided to minority ethnic communities, there is continuing evidence of failure on the part of the National Health Service (NHS). One of the ways in which the New Labour government has …
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English nurse education and National Health Service reform 1985-1997
… to life-long learning barriers in the NHS. International comparative studies provide explanatory insights and the impact of the work is demonstrated through numerous citations among other forms of recognition.
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Exploring Irish Nursing Careers in the British National Health Service.
… Exploring Irish Nursing Careers in the British National Health Service. Background: The experiences of minority ethnic groups working in the NHS have been explored from a perspective of race ideas, primarily colour. Little is known about Irish nurses as a key group of actors and agents who have …
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Critical systems thinking, dialogue and quality management in the National Health Service
This thesis considers quality in the National Health Service (NHS), the theories of dialogue, critical systems thinking, and quality - and how these domains can be related together to produce a new concept of quality called critical quality.A quality gap is identified between what the NHS produces …
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Shaping Identity: The National Health Service and Britishness after World War II
… that is fundamental to current British national identity. The NHS exemplifies the core values of the UK, in a way that previous national institutions – the Church, the monarchy, and the Empire – could not due to the societal makeup of the country. The NHS was created for all citizens, …
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An information based approach to clinical audit in the UK National Health Service
The UK National Health Service (NI-IS) has undergone massive reform over the last ten years. Many of the changes have been connected with the introduction of business and management concepts into a public service. Part of this process has been the introduction of the principles of quality …
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An investigation into error detection and recovery in UK National Health Service screening programmes
The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of the problems that may impede detection and recovery of NHS laboratory screening errors. This is done by developing an accident analysis technique that isolates and further analyzes error handling activities, and applying it in four case …
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Team Work and Conflict During Elective Procedures in English National Health Service Operating Theatres
… been proposed as the means by which effective service delivery and organisation can be achieved within the operating theatre. Enhanced interprofessional communication, focus on a common goal, and valuing the contributions of team members have all been identified, within the professional …
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Business information requirements for the performance management of aseptic dispensing in the national health service
… of set data for an important hospital support service, and applies relevant lessons from other fields and industries. It enables a systematic approach to capacity planning and performance evaluation, at a time when the contribution of the service to support clinical governance is being fully …
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An exploration of women’s representation in senior leadership positions in the English National Health Service
… into a glass ceiling (GC) in the English National Health Service (NHS), is derived from my own observations as a former NHS employee. Initially, most attendees at the meetings I went to were female managers. This contrasted with my first board meeting at which only one female Executive …
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A pilot ontology for a large, diverse set of national health service healthcare quality indicators
… duplication of effort in finding data for NHS healthcare quality indicators, to resolve issues identified in previous efforts to develop quality-monitoring ontologies and to identify areas for future computer-interpretable quality indicator development for the United Kingdom’s Department of …
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An investigation into Stress and Coaching-needs in the National Health Service and UK Hospices
… explores the issues around stress in the UK Health Service, with a particular focus on stress in the Hospice Service and the benefits of a group coaching intervention for this staff group. Section A provides an introduction to the thesis, explaining the rationale behind the choice of research …
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Patients' choice between the National Health Service and the private sector in the United Kingdom
… the different rationing mechanisms used by National Health Service (NHS) and private hospitals to allocate surgery among patients. Private hospitals charge a price and ration on the basis of willingness to pay , while NHS hospitals , which face budget limits, ration on the basis of clinical …
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Exploring the processes of action learning in the National Health Service : dilemmas and paradoxes of evaluation
… change and development toemerge in the National Health Service within the lastfew years.This thesis is concerned with an exploration of actionlearning through a piece of evaluative research whichfocuses on three management development programmes.The study can be seen as having three …
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