All Outputs (11)

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce (2009)
Journal Article

Efforts to ‘modernize’ the clinical workforce of the English National Health Service have sought to reconfigure the responsibilities of professional groups in pursuit of more effective, joined-up service provision. Such efforts have met resistance f... Read More about Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce.

Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice (2009)
Journal Article

Social-scientific analysis of public-participation initiatives has proliferated in recent years. This review article discusses some key aspects of recent work. Firstly, it analyses some of the justifications put forward for public participation, dr... Read More about Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice.

Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements (2009)
Journal Article

Recent health policy in England has demanded greater involvement of patients and the public in the commissioning of health and social care services. Public involvement is seen as a means of driving up service quality, reducing health inequalities a... Read More about Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements.

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management (2008)
Journal Article

Public participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermin... Read More about Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management.

National evaluation of NHS genetics service investments: emerging issues from the cancer genetics pilots (2007)
Journal Article

In seeking to fulfil the ambition of the 2003 genetics white paper, Our Inheritance, Our Future, to ‘mainstream’ genetic knowledge and practices, the Department of Health provided start-up funding for pilot services in various clinical areas, includi... Read More about National evaluation of NHS genetics service investments: emerging issues from the cancer genetics pilots.

The organization, form and function of intermediate care services and systems in England: results from a national survey (2007)
Journal Article

This paper reports the results of a postal survey of intermediate care co-ordinators (ICCs) on the organization and delivery of intermediate care services for older people in England, conducted between November 2003 and May 2004. Questionnaires, whi... Read More about The organization, form and function of intermediate care services and systems in England: results from a national survey.

Place, policy and practitioners: on rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the United Kingdom (2005)
Journal Article

A growing body of literature in geography and other social sciences considers the role of place in the provision of healthcare. Authors have focused on various aspects of place and care, with particular interests emerging around the role of the psych... Read More about Place, policy and practitioners: on rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the United Kingdom.

Narratives great and small: neighbourhood change, place and identity in Notting Hill (2005)
Journal Article

The area of Notting Hill in west London has been subject to much media coverage in recent years, which, along with substantial gentrification, has given rise to an image of the area as the epitome of fashionable London. This study investigates the vi... Read More about Narratives great and small: neighbourhood change, place and identity in Notting Hill.

Human motivation and professional practice: of knights, knaves and social workers (2004)
Journal Article

Efforts to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of public services by harnessing the self-interest of professionals in state agencies have been widely debated in the recent literature on welfare state reform. In the context of social services, o... Read More about Human motivation and professional practice: of knights, knaves and social workers.

Diversity in intermediate care (2004)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the evolution of intermediate care and presents some interim observations from a survey of providers in England being conducted as part of a national evaluation of intermediate care. Telephone interviews covering various issues... Read More about Diversity in intermediate care.

"Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare
Journal Article

Public involvement in healthcare is a prominent policy in countries across the economically developed world. A growing body of academic literature has focused on public participation, often presenting dichotomies between good and bad practice: betwe... Read More about "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare.