All Outputs (25)

An analysis of media reporting on the closure of freestanding midwifery units in England (2019)
Journal Article
Rayment, J., McCourt, C., Scanlon, M., Culley, L., Spiby, H., Bishop, S., & de Lima, L. A. (2020). An analysis of media reporting on the closure of freestanding midwifery units in England. Women and Birth, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2018.12.012

Problem Despite clinical guidelines and policy promoting choice of place of birth, 14 Freestanding Midwifery Units were closed between 2008 and 2015, closures reported in the media as justified by low use and financial constraints. Background Th... Read More about An analysis of media reporting on the closure of freestanding midwifery units in England.

Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services (2019)
Journal Article
Go Jefferies, J., Bishop, S., & Hibbert, S. (2021). Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services. Public Policy and Administration, 36(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076718822715

Scholars, policymakers and practitioners recognise the potential to improve public services through active citizen involvement and much research has examined the formal opportunities to 'co-produce' changes in the structures and cultures of public se... Read More about Service innovation through resource integration: An empirical examination of co-created value using telehealth services.

Transforming professional and service user identities in the heterotopian 'hybrid spaces' of public-private partnerships (2018)
Journal Article
Waring, J., & Bishop, S. (2018). Transforming professional and service user identities in the heterotopian 'hybrid spaces' of public-private partnerships. Policy and Politics, 46(4), 663-679. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15333033267699

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are interpreted as ‘hybrid’ organisations that combine the distinct organising principles of public and private sectors. This paper develops a spatial analysis of these ‘hybrid spaces’ to understand how they transfo... Read More about Transforming professional and service user identities in the heterotopian 'hybrid spaces' of public-private partnerships.

Public policies on healthcare-associated infections: a Brazil and UK case study (2017)
Journal Article
Padoveze, M. C., Melo, S., Bishop, S., Poveda, V. D. B., & Fortaleza, C. M. C. B. (2017). Public policies on healthcare-associated infections: a Brazil and UK case study. Revista de Saúde Pública, 51, https://doi.org/10.11606/S1518-8787.2017051000315

To summarize the historical events and drivers underlying public policy for the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in Brazil and in the United Kingdom. In doing so, the article aims to identify lessons and recommendations for... Read More about Public policies on healthcare-associated infections: a Brazil and UK case study.

Becoming hybrid: The negotiated order on the front line of public-private partnership (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines how tensions in institutional logics, created in the formation of hybrid organizations, are played out, and partially resolved, through micro-level interactions within everyday work. Drawing on the negotiated order perspective,... Read More about Becoming hybrid: The negotiated order on the front line of public-private partnership.