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Tensions within management roles in healthcare organisations (2017)
Journal Article

Aim: This article reports the results of a study that gives an insight into ward leaders’ perspectives of their leadership role and explores how they deliver leadership at ward level within organisational constraints and processes. Previous studies h... Read More about Tensions within management roles in healthcare organisations.

Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth (2017)
Journal Article

The analysis of data from electronic health records aspires to facilitate healthcare efficiencies and biomedical innovation. There are also ethical, legal and social implications from the handling of sensitive patient information. The paper explores... Read More about Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth.

The evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output (2016)
Journal Article

Objective:To identify publication and citation trends, most productive institutions and countries, top journals, most cited articles and authorship networks from articles that used and analysed data from primary care databases (CPRD, THIN, QResearch)... Read More about The evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output.

Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt-out forms (2016)
Journal Article

Background Care.data was a programme of work led by NHS England for the extraction of patient-identifiable and coded information from general practitioner GP records for secondary uses. This study analyses the forms (on the websites of GP practices)... Read More about Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt-out forms.

The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the paper, we are looking at the relationship between globalisation and the professional project, using nursing in Kerala as an exemplar. Our focus is on the intersection of the professional project, gender and globalisation pr... Read More about The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India.

The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India (2016)
Journal Article

In the paper, we are looking at the relationship between globalisation and the professional project, using nursing in Kerala as an exemplar. Our focus is on the intersection of the professional project, gender and globalisation processes. Included in... Read More about The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India.

ED healthcare professionals and their notions of productivity (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: The combination of constrained resources, patient complexity and rapidly increasing demand has meant that healthcare productivity constitutes a significant problem for emergency medicine. However, healthcare productivity remains a contenti... Read More about ED healthcare professionals and their notions of productivity.

Nurses in the private health sector in Kerala: Any lessons learnt from their strikes in recent years? (2016)
Journal Article

This article analyses the series of strikes initiated by staff nurses in private hospitals in the state of Kerala. In spite of the growth of private sector health care institutions, working terms and conditions of nursing professionals are structured... Read More about Nurses in the private health sector in Kerala: Any lessons learnt from their strikes in recent years?.

Lessons Learned from the Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System (2015)
Book Chapter

Clinical information systems are increasingly used in emergency departments across the English National Health Service. The implementation outcome is unpredictable and success is not guaranteed. This study identifies facilitating social and technical... Read More about Lessons Learned from the Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System.

On the adoption of personal health records: some problematic issues for patient empowerment (2015)
Journal Article

Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform (2015)
Journal Article

The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966.... Read More about Animals and anomalies: an analysis of the UK veterinary profession and the relative lack of state reform.

Being human: transdisciplinarity in nursing (2015)
Journal Article

Nursing as an academic discipline typically draws on a wide range of other disciplines. There is debate about whether this is a sound basis for the discipline, or whether nursing needs to develop a distinctive body of knowledge. The concept of transd... Read More about Being human: transdisciplinarity in nursing.

Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The call for a new professionalism? (2014)
Journal Article

Improving performance is an imperative for most healthcare systems in industrialised countries. This article considers one such system, the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Recent NHS reforms and strategies have advocated improved healthcare produ... Read More about Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The call for a new professionalism?.

National targets, process transformation and local consequences in an NHS emergency department (ED): a qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article

Implementing lean methods in the Emergency Department: The role of professions and professional status (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of lean methods in an Emergency Department (ED) and the role of the professions in this process. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with ED staff... Read More about Implementing lean methods in the Emergency Department: The role of professions and professional status.

Implementing an emergency department information system: an Actor-Network Theory case study (2014)
Journal Article

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly used in healthcare settings. Despite their technical robustness, their implementation has not always been straightforward. This is a case study of the implementation of a clinical info... Read More about Implementing an emergency department information system: an Actor-Network Theory case study.

Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Experience (2012)
Journal Article

This article explores the reactions of nurses toward the implementation of an emergency department information system. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 nurses, and data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results suggest that d... Read More about Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Experience.

Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking (2011)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine nurses' attitudes and reflection on the transformation of their workpractices after the implementation of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Methods: A qualitative study using intervie... Read More about Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking.

Building and sustaining collaboration in cross sector e-learning development (2010)
Book Chapter

This chapter will focus on the process of building and sustaining collaborative reusable e-learning object development across three educational sectors, Higher Education (HE), the UK National Health Service (NHS) and Further Education (FE) Colleges,... Read More about Building and sustaining collaboration in cross sector e-learning development.