All Outputs (5)

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce (2009)
Journal Article
Martin, G. P., Currie, G., & Finn, R. (2009). Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.01.006

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
Martin, G. P. (2009). Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice. Sociology Compass, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00200.x

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
Martin, G. P. (2009). Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements. Critical Public Health, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590802385672

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
Martin, G. P. (2008). Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management. Social Science and Medicine, 67(11),

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.

"Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare
Journal Article
Martin, G. P. "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare. Sociology of Health and Illness, 30(1),

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.