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Healthcare organisations have to manage change in order to evolve and improve care. This book explores the use of reflective practice as a practical tool to examine growth and change and to develop an effective health care organisation.
"By using theories of Six Sigma and Lean methodology, this text presents solutions to fundamental problems in healthcare. This text breaks the system down into three fundamental areas: primary care, hospitals, and managed care. The author identifies the four critical issues that…
A practical guide to managing projects from start to finish in the health and community services environments.
Learning is at the heart of change. This book breaks new ground in exploring the need for individuals to engage in personal change through learning as an essential part of achieving significant change in organisations. It explains how to engage with people's energy, enthusiasm a…
Health care settings - from hospitals to general practice, doctor's offices to medical and surgical wards, to community nursing to hospital in the home - are interesting and exciting places to visit and work. This book explores the concepts of culture and climate in these kinds …
Defining a project -- Planning for a project -- Getting started -- Managing time -- Managing project costs -- Managing project quality -- Communications -- Change -- Risk -- Project close-out -- Motivation, teaming, and the project team -- Leadership and power -- Contracting and…
"A growing number of healthcare organizations are implementing project management principles to improve cost and service efficiencies. They are in desperate need of resources that clearly illustrate the project management needs of todays healthcare professional. Project Manageme…
Taking into account the changing nature and context of partnerships, this book explores a partnership approach in respect of child protection, mental health, older people, substance misuse, gypsy travellers, domestic violence, children with behavioural problems, housing need, me…
A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a 'thing', a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which o…
Learn what evidence-based management (EB management) is and how it can focus thinking and clarify the issues surrounding a decision. The book provides a straightforward process for asking the right questions, gathering supporting information from various sources, evaluating the …
Annotation The aim of this book is to reduce the risks of medical treatment and enhance the safety of patients in all areas of healthcare. The first section discusses human error, the incidence of harm to patients, and the development or risk management. Chapters in the second s…
This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed. Explaining the logical basis of the different research approaches used by biomedical research scientists and their relative merits, i…
