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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"National health service (NHS)"”.
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Local Authorities and the Development of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, 1939 to 1974
… were at the forefront of the provision of health services and health service planning before the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland and in Britain more generally in 1948. By 1929 the Local Government Act had consolidated the position of local authorities, who …
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Mapping the review of ethics in research : the work of National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committees in England
… committee members and explores how the work of National Health Service Research Ethics Committees (NHSRECs) is accomplished in the everyday contexts in which decisions are made. This study aimed to reveal new knowledge about how NHSECs work to reach decisions about applications with a particular …
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Exploring the Impact of Business Intelligence (BI) Use on Organisational Power Dynamics: A National Health Service (NHS) Case Study
The public sector, particularly healthcare organisations are under ever increasing pressure to do more with less. This coupled with the need to keep up to the constant technological changes and ever increasing abundance of information has led to many public sector organisations adopting Business …
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Investigating the role of mentoring and social capital in managing gender diversity at the senior management levels of the national health service (NHS) in Scotland: a study of NHS Tayside
… diversity at the senior management levels of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland. Although the NHS employs a large number of females, they are not fairly represented at the senior managerial levels. The objectives of this research are: to explore whether there is a relationship between …
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Medical informatics : the generic interchange of comprehensive health data
… data will help towards the goal of better healthcare particularly in an environment of shared care. It studied the main methods of data transfer available at present, and as a result carried out an in depth review of one such method adopted by the National Health Service (NHS). Criticism of …
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Person-centered care : using systemic and psychodynamically informed action research
… care setting. The context of this study was a National Health Service (NHS) nursing home for the long term care of older people. Interventions used to support this development included the collection and sharing of residents' life histories, weekly team supervision meetings for staff, an action …
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The Case to Innovate: understanding organisational innovativeness in one NHS Trust
Innovation in United Kingdom (UK) healthcare has in the last decade been driven forward through national policy and the development of a national innovation infrastructure, underpinned by an imperative to change. An increasing number of National Health Service (NHS) provider units, the NHS trusts, …
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Predicting outpatient appointment non-attendances using machine learning techniques
Missed appointments are estimated to cost the UK National Health Service (NHS) approximately £1 billion annually. Research that leads to a fuller understanding of the types of factors influencing spatial and temporal patterns of missed appointments is therefore timely. Current research is mainly …
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Storytelling failure in the Vale of Leven: How a bacterial outbreak became a wicked problem
… and subsequent protests from local citizens, the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland launched a public inquiry in 2009 to investigate the events precipitating the outbreak. Extending rhetoric and technical communication’s sustained engagement with post-accident reports, this study explores how …
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Private sector norms and public service practices: employment relations in the civil service and the national health service
… work looks at employment relations in the Civil Service and the National Health Service( NHS) over the last decade and in particular at management/union relations, pay determination and equal opportunities. The focus of research over this period was the extent to which private sector norms are …
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Professionalising counter fraud specialists (fraud investigators) in the UK public sector: a focus upon Department for Work and Pensions, National Health Service and the Local Authority
… upon the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), National Health Service (NHS) and Local Authority (LA). The conceptual framework used to underpin the study was functionalist / “traits” theory of a profession and professionalisation. The main research question for the thesis concerns the issue of …
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An exploration of the experiences of being involved with psychiatric services and psychiatric admission for individuals with psychosis: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… 1979) but more recently, evidence from service user feedback has indicated the experience of psychiatric admission can be felt to be neither safe nor therapeutic (Department of Health, 2002). There has been lack of qualitative research exploring individuals’ experiences of psychiatric …
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Longevity of the health benefits of breast reduction
… to a small number of patients of patients on the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, chosen from a large number of individuals who are referred for various procedures. The most popular and most frequently requested of all aesthetic procedures in the Scottish health board NHS Lothian is …
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Cultural differences impacting on therapists’ interpretation and understanding of clients’ appraisals in post-traumatic stress disorder
… to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) within the National Health Service (NHS), and a third sector charity/voluntary organisation. A thematic approach was used to analyse the data obtained from the therapists' lived experiences. The emerging themes are critically analysed and discussed in the …
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The Effectiveness of Digital Mental Health Interventions in Reducing Work-Related Burnout Among Office Workers in England: A Systematic Review
… and digital overexposure. Digital mental health is useful for treating pressure, despair, and anxiety in the workplace, but undertakings and engagement with these interventions remain a concern. Aim: The aim of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of digital mental health …
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Developing and evaluating a collaborative care intervention for depression
… treatment of depression in primary care in the National Health Service (NHS). It begins with an outline of the problems experienced by people with depression and the challenge that their effective care presents to the healthcare system. It then considers the response of evidence-based medicine …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
Introduction <br/>‘Leave' occurs when a mental health inpatient exits their hospital ward with authorised permission; limited research has explored the use of leave, nor its implementation in practice (Barlow and Dickens 2018). This study determines the content of leave policies, which operate …
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A framework for the assessment of nursing taks and environmental demands
… nursing profession is pivotal to the delivery of healthcare services within the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, studies have shown that an increasing number of older nurses are leaving the NHS as a result of the physical and cognitive demands of the nursing job. In particular, a growing …
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An exploration of the roles and experiences of governance officers in an NHS trust
… Accountability is a key issue in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Clinical governance officers are a relatively new group of staff that are employed to help ensure accountability at the local level of the NHS. Aim This thesis explores the role of governance officers in an NHS Trust. …
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Radon remediation: an analysis of dose-reduction, durability and effectiveness
… as to reduce levels and lower the risk to human health. The remediation and post-remediation research programme in the NI-IS properties in Northamptonshire is perhaps the most mature in the UK, commencing in 1993. This thesis includes a review of the main remediation projects in National Health …
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