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Dr SIMON BISHOP's Outputs (4)

Healthcare leadership with political astuteness (HeLPA): A qualitative study of how service leaders understand and mediate the informal 'power and politics' of major health system change (2018)
Journal Article
Waring, J., Bishop, S., Clarke, J., Exworthy, M., Fulop, N. J., Hartley, J., & Ramsay, A. I. (2018). Healthcare leadership with political astuteness (HeLPA): A qualitative study of how service leaders understand and mediate the informal 'power and politics' of major health system change. BMC Health Services Research, 18, Article 918. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3728-z

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: The implementation of strategic health system change is often complicated by the informal politics and power of health systems, such as competing interests and resistant groups. Evidence from other industries shows t... Read More about Healthcare leadership with political astuteness (HeLPA): A qualitative study of how service leaders understand and mediate the informal 'power and politics' of major health system change.

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.