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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"the National Health Service"”.
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Implementing management information systems in the National Health Service
… characterised with epistemological dialectism. The current conflict and debate about MIS inquiry is broadly between the advocates of the social systems and technical systems perspectives. Few authors have made positive contributions toward clarifying the meaning and nature of MIS, and the …
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Exploring evidence based management in the National Health Service
Purpose and aims of the study: To contribute to the on-going debate over whether the use of evidence could and should improve organisational effectiveness. This is especially important in the context of the health service that has, since (May 1997) enthusiastically adopted evidence based medicine …
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Performance evaluation in the National Health Service - a systems approach
This research explores the contribution which systems theories, methodologies and models can make in the design and application of effective performance-evaluation processes. Approaches to performance assessment of organisations are reviewed, and the history and structure of the NHS, its …
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From here to diversity : ethnicity in the national health service
Nearly twenty years after 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 …
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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
This thesis argues that the creation of the NHS inadvertently created an institution 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 …
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Business information requirements for the performance management of aseptic dispensing in the national health service
The purpose of this research is to determine the information to be collected for aseptic dispensing in NHS hospitals, and its use for management and business purposes in relation to capacity, demand, performance and efficiency. Mixed methodologies were adopted on an exploratory basis. Qualitative …
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An investigation into Stress and Coaching-needs in the National Health Service and UK Hospices
This thesis 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 …
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Patients' choice between the National Health Service and the private sector in the United Kingdom
The aim of this dissertation is to explain how elective surgery patients choose between the public and private hospital sectors in the United Kingdom, and to analyze government policy changes which affect this choice. First the choice between the public and private sectors is modeled for the case …
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Exploring the processes of action learning in the National Health Service : dilemmas and paradoxes of evaluation
Action Learning has become one of the most importantprocesses for accelerating 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 …
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Study of the barriers to the implementation of computerised information systems in the National Health Service
… information systems (CIS) to be utilised to their full potential they must first be successfully implemented. The acquisition and implementation process continues to be an area which is reported by the media to present problems for both public and private sector organisations (Keen, 1994; …
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Local Authorities and the Development of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, 1939 to 1974
Local authorities 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 …
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A pilot study of personnel function in the national health service : a case of Sandwell Health Authority
This project study is written in seven chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter consisting of the introduction, methodology and summary of the project findings. The introduction gives a rationale behind the project. The methodology explains briefly what methods have been used to …
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A pilot study of personnel function in the national health service : a case of Sandwell Health Authority
This project study is written in seven chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter consisting of the introduction, methodology and summary of the project findings. The introduction gives a rationale behind the project. The methodology explains briefly what methods have been used to …
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The State and medical care in Britain: political processes and the structuring of the National Health Service
The creation of the National Health Service is treated, analytically and historically, as a planning process involving major changes in the social organisation of health as a part of the larger set of social and economic reconstruction policies undertaken by the wartime Coalition and postwar Labour …
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Private sector norms and public service practices: employment relations in the civil service and the national health service
… published 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 …
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The evaluation of information systems in the organisational context of the National Health Service. Available in 2 volumes.
This thesis describes a project which has investigated the evaluation of information systems. The work took place in, and is related to, a specific organisational context, that of the National Health Service (NHS). It aims to increase understanding of the evaluation which takes place in the service …
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The political economy of co-ordination challenges in the National Health Service: a postpositivist evaluation of diabetes policy and governance
The present PhD thesis develops and applies an evaluative methodology suited to the evaluation of policy and governance in complex policy areas. While extensive literatures exist on the topic of policy evaluation, governance evaluation has received less attention. At the level of governance, …
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An analysis of the feasibility of developing a generic model for the implementation of total quality management within the National Health Service
This is an exploratory case study evaluating the process of TQM implementation in the 23 TQM demonstration sites in the NHS. These sites were set up in 1989 by the Department of Health as centres of excellence for the implementation of TQM. An earlier study' evaluating TQM in the NHS failed to …
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