Governing the New NHS
Issues and Tensions in Health Service Management
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-49276-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 20th May 2010 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 224
About the Book
The new NHS is a very different organisation to the one set up 60 years ago. Over a decade of reforms have involved the redistribution and devolution of NHS accountabilities for primary care, secondary, tertiary and mental health services and a host of new supervisory and management bodies, authorities and trusts have been set up. All these changes have made governance a crucial and contested issue in health care.
Governing the New NHS makes sense of the new systems and will enable anyone interested in healthcare governance to navigate their way confidently through the confusion. It describes, assesses and critiques the new governance arrangements. It examines how they are working in practice, reporting on how practitioners are making sense of, and responding to, the difficulties and paradoxes that arise. The book:
- Explains current governance arrangements and explores related issues and tensions – such as those between the devolved countries, and primary and secondary care trusts
- Discusses the roles and interrelationships of boards and effective board practice
- Debates the nature of effective governance and how to do it well
- Looks at how to ensure seamless governance and service provision in a fragmented NHS – avoiding gaps and problems between different health service providers.
The authors draw on survey data from primary and secondary trusts across England and detailed case study data from primary care, acute and mental health trusts. Each chapter is supplemented with contributions written by leading practitioners in the health system, which are then commented on and put into context by the authors. This practical book will be invaluable to all those interested in health governance, whether academic, student or practitioner.
Table of Contents
Selected contents: 1. Why Governance has become a Crucial Issue in Health Services 2. Current Governance Arrangements – Issues and Tensions 3. The Role of Boards 4. Integrating Organizational Governance 5. Integrating Inter-organizational Governance 6. Board Development 7. Summary and Conclusions: Future Trends and Future Steps
About the Author(s)
John Storey is Professor of Management at The Open University Business School, UK.
John Bullivant is Governance Advisor on behalf of the Department of Health and a visiting fellow at the University of Glamorgan, UK.
Michael Deighan is jointly leading on the Governance between Organisations agenda. He is a special advisor on governance and board development to the Department of Health.
Andrew Corbett-Nolan is Head of Governance at Humana.