Excellence in Health Care Management

This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals, and management trainees.

“"The book is lucid, scholarly and particularly well referenced. It is reasonably priced and is thus essential reading to all students of health policy and management and will be found refreshing by those intending to spend their working lives in the field of health care. It should therefore be added to the collection of each NHS trust and each university library." Journal of Advanced Nursing "Excellence in Health care Management fills a void in the present literature on the more strategic, conceptual and thought-provoking issues around nursing and nursing ethics...A must for your NHS, MBA reading list, but also for students of power, politics and feminism. It is a must, too, for nurses who see themselves going into a career structure in the millennium." Health Service Journal”

"The book is lucid, scholarly and particularly well referenced. It is reasonably priced and is thus essential reading to all students of health policy and management and will be found refreshing by those intending to spend their working lives in the field of health care. It should therefore be added to the collection of each NHS trust and each university library."Journal of Advanced Nursing

"Excellence in Health care Management fills a void in the present literature on the more strategic, conceptual and thought-provoking issues around nursing and nursing ethics...A must for your NHS, MBA reading list, but also for students of power, politics and feminism. It is a must, too, for nurses who see themselves going into a career structure in the millennium."Health Service Journal

Alison Morton-Cooper MEd, RGN is Research Fellow at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Edinburgh; Margaret Bamford PhD, MSc, RN, has a Senior Research Fellowship at the Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, and is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to practice today. Central issues including people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals and management trainees.

The nature of working relationships in the NHS is changing. The development of a market-oriented approach to health care delivery has been central to these changes, most noticeably seen with the advent of resource management, the development of the internal economy for health care and the development of Trusts and GP fundholders. This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the key issues and dilemmas facing health care managers today. It provides the broad base of subjects which together inform current opinion in meeting present day challenges and aspirations to excellence in care provision. The book is divided into sections covering the key issues in health care management. The first section looks at attaining excellence in human resources management and includes a chapter devoted to health careers in the twenty-first century. Key concepts in quality, finance and information management are clearly explained in the second part of the book. Section three covers funding in health care education and training, directly challenging some of the common assumptions held by employers, educationalists and human resource developers. The final section considers the politics of health care and sets the scene for effective, efficient health care management today and in the future. With contributions from experienced practitioners in health care management, this book provides an authoritative introduction to critical issues in contemporary health care management for students, manager, health care practitioners, policy-makers and educators. Key features are: Addresses the problems and issues relating to quality management Approachable, up-to-date with current thinking Wide appeal for students and practicing managers Takes a contemporary, theoretical and practical perspective

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