Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 25 Issue 6

Meeting the four‐hour deadline in an A&E department

Julie Eatock, Malcolm Clarke, Claire Picton, Terry Young

Accident and emergency (A&E) departments experience a secondary peak in patient length of stay (LoS) at around four hours, caused by the coping strategies used to meet the…

Steering whilst rowing: governing and managing health services from the centre

John Storey

The article seeks to explore the practical and theoretical implications of the ways in which senior figures in the National Health Service (NHS) interpret the role of the centre…

Managing cultural diversity in healthcare partnerships: the case of LIFT

Russell Mannion, Sally Brown, Matthias Beck, Neil Lunt

The National Health Service (NHS) Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme was launched in 2001 as an innovative public‐private partnership to address the historical…

Integrating or disintegrating effects of customised care: the role of professions beyond NPM

Roy Liff, Thomas Andersson

This paper aims to describe the integrating and disintegrating effects of professional actions in customised care.

Managing professionals: exploring the role of the hospital HR function

Aoife McDermott, Mary Keating

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the HR function in the management of professional and non‐professional staff in the acute hospital sector.

Job and career influences on the career commitment of health care executives: The mediating effect of job satisfaction

Duan‐Rung Chen, Robert Myrtle, Caroline Liu, Daniel Fahey

While there is considerable evidence supporting the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment, the relationship between the antecedents of job…

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