Excellence in Health Care Management

Alison Morton Cooper (Edited by), A Morton–Cooper (Author), Margaret Bamford (Edited by)

9780632040322, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 28 November 1996

256 pages
24 x 15.9 x 1.4 cm, 0.482 kg

"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

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.

List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Section I - Excellence in Human Resources Management: Organisational change - implications for HRM
Health careers in the 21st century
Dimensions of Orgnisational Health
Section II - Key Concepts in Quality, Fianance and Information Management: Quality management in health care, Key conepts in finance and information management
Section III - Education and Training for Health Care: A critique of alternative pathways in professional and vocational education
Funding issues in education and training
"Credentialling" in health care and its implications
Section IV - Managing Paradox - The Politics of Health Care The paradox of health care provision
The paradox of caring (an art or a science?)
The paradox of welfare
The paradox of technological arrogance
The paradox of human communication
The paradox of public "charterism"
Index

Subject Areas: Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]