Organisation Development in Health Care

Health on the agenda in Scottish independence referendum

The purpose of this paper is to explore the variety of mechanisms applied since 1991 to engage English and Welsh general practitioners (GPs) in local health services planning and implementation. Three qualitative case studies. The paper identifies three types of mechanism: separation, alliance and integration. "Separation" characterises the relationship between most GPs and health authorities during the 1990s; alliance refers to the cooperative arrangements between groups of GPs and health authorities such as GP commissioning pilots, total purchasing, primary care groups and local health groups; integration refers to the integration of most health authority functions with primary care organisations (primary care trusts--PCTs and local health boards). Alliance models appear to have been most successful in promoting GP engagement in local planning and implementation; the necessarily bureaucratic nature of PCTs an local health board has alienated many. As yet, the National Health Service (NHS) lacks organisational arrangements which permit GPs a primarily clinical focus while ensuring that their knowledge and advice is available to those carrying out administrative functions. Practice-based commissioning may provide a means of improving such arrangements. The paper combines a number of features in health services and policy research. Few studies of primary health care organisations in the mid-2000s have been undertaken; the Welsh NHS is very under-researched; organisational analysis of the NHS is more often based on analysis from the outside rather than grounded in the felt experience of NHS personnel; and the historical perspective is often neglected.

Emergency Care Crisis in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Emergency Physician Exodus Looms in Wake of Pay Cuts, Staffing Shortages

In England primary care groups will have a key role in promoting the health and improving the health care of their local population.1 By April 1999 these groups, involving all...

Do PCGs need information officers?

Summary Background: This paper reviews the NAGE postregistration course and describes how it has responded to the changing demands of the major stakeholders in the health and social care sectors. It demonstrates how the course team have fulfilled the stated aims and objectives and sought to provide a rich experience for the course participants while being aware of the changing needs of the National Health Service (NHS) and expectations of dietitians, other health professionals and the wider community, particularly with the formation of Primary Care Groups (PCGs). Evidence to inform this review is drawn from a range of sources including dietetic managers, dietitians working with older people, past participants and course evaluations. Aims: The overall purpose of the course has been to enhance the ability of the participants, i.e. dietitians working with older people, to reflect on their professional practice and become more effective in their membership of the multidisiciplinary team, with the ultimate goal of improving the provision of health care for older people and enhancing their quality of life. This ultimate goal is in line with the government Quality Agenda as reflected in the First Class Service and clinical effectiveness and the future National Service Framework for Older People. Structure: The review is divided into three broad sections: detailed reflection of the courses held; nutrition and dietetic managers views; changes in the external environment that directly and indirectly influence the course.

My Father and Mother Died at Home — Will Yours?

Health care industry is in revolutionary state in this era, which mainly focuses on eminence and transformational alterations after COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Effective communication and proper management of health care officials plays a vital role in health care industry. Inclusion of technological advancement, supportive, and helpful devices prevails bliss among the workers of health care industry. Most of the workers in this industry expects from managers to perform in inspiring and effective manner especially in pandemic or epidemic situations. In this manner, the officials of industry directly effects by their managers. Employees are interested from their managers who can lead in a high-quality and in an inspiring manner. Nurses who're content material of their positions correlate to a discount in group of workers turnover and enhance retention. 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Marian K. Shaughnessy, DNP, RN

Individuals with serious mental illness often are unable to access consumer- and family-oriented community care, resulting in repeated hospitalizations, incarceration, and homelessness. The "medical home" concept was developed in primary care to provide accessible and accountable services for individuals with chronic medical conditions. Building on the work done in primary care, the authors propose a "mental health home." The model of care incorporates medical home characteristics, such as access to and coordination of services, integration of primary and preventive care, adoption of recovery orientation and evidence-based practices, and family and community outreach. Barriers to and strategies for implementation of mental health homes are discussed.

A New Kind of Homelessness for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness? The Need for a "Mental Health Home"

UK doctors' anger over NHS cash crisis

This paper reviews evidence about the relationships between NHS services and nursing and residential homes in England and Wales. Since the transfer in 1993 of responsibility for funding nursing and residential home care for less affluent older people to local authority social services departments, nursing and residential care has been widely assumed to constitute part of ‘social care’ services. This obscures the fact that residents of nursing and residential care homes frequently have substantial and complex healthcare needs. While some of these healthcare needs may be met through the care provided within homes themselves, most will require substantial contributions from NHS medical, nursing, pharmaceutical and other services. The National Service Framework for Older People (Department of Health, 2001) prioritises reinvestment in intermediate care services, building on the expectation in The NHS Plan (Department of Health, 2000a) that residential and nursing homes will play a major role in the development of these services. This expectation has been further reinforced by the Concordat with the private and voluntary healthcare provider sector (Department of Health, 2000b). However there is little evidence about the NHS services which are currently provided to nursing and residential homes, nor about the capacity of mainstream NHS services to meet the projected development of intermediate care services within the independent institutional sector. This paper reviews the evidence which is available and highlights some of the priorities which primary care groups in England (local health groups in Wales) will need to consider if they are to develop integrated and good quality services for frail older people.

50 years of the inverse care law

Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and race in the time of COVID-19