Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 19 Issue 6

Leading improvement

John Øvretveit

To provide research‐informed guidance to leaders of quality and safety improvement and evidence‐based materials for education programmes for leaders

Cultural characteristics of “high” and “low” performing hospitals

R. Mannion, H.T.O. Davies, M.N. Marshall

To compare and contrast the cultural characteristics of “high” and “low” performing hospitals in the UK National Health Service (NHS).

Instilling and distilling a reputation for institutional excellence: A critical reflection on organising practice

Margitta B. Beil‐Hildebrand

This ethnographic investigation of a general hospital aims to critically analyse a much lauded corporate culture. Rather than accepting the managerial and academic claims…

Using operational information and information systems to improve in‐patient flow in hospitals

N.C. Proudlove, R. Boaden

To consider how information and information systems can be used to support improving patient flow in acute hospitals (a key target for the National Health Service in England), and…

Women paediatricians: what made them choose their career?

Martina Moorkamp

To explore why women paediatricians have chosen paediatrics as their specialty when previous research has shown that this was the least favourite career option.

Researchers' responses to research management and governance for primary care research in England: Persistent and escalating problems over time

Brenda Leese, Claire Storey, Jackie Ford, Francine Cheater

Research Governance has been introduced to regulate research involving National Health Service (NHS) patients and staff but the process is lengthy and bureaucratic and has…

Network structure and attitudes toward collaboration in a community partnership for diabetes control on the US‐Mexican border

Keith G. Provan, Jennel Harvey, Jill Guernsey de Zapien

This study seeks to provide an examination of a health policy network operating in a single, small community along the US‐Mexican border. The purpose of the paper is to discuss…

Project management and action research: two sides of the same coin?

Dean Whitehead

To put forward the, to date, unidentified viewpoint that organisational action research and project management have many shared properties – making it a useful exercise to compare…