Really Managing Health Care

Author : Iles, Valerie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335210091

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Praise for the first edition: "Valerie Iles has such a sensitive no-nonsense style that she easily succeeds in seducing the reader to accept her arguments about what is going so badly wrong with management in health care ... The case studies can only be described as 'gems'... But perhaps the greatest message this book can give to the NHS, and health care managers in particular, is that change is unstoppable. All organisms must adapt with their environment or die."- Health Service Journal "Yes! This is a book that draws heavily on real-life observations with an appropriate balance of theory and pragmatism. It tackles the challenges we all face in our everday work - managing people, change, money, ourselves and organisations."- Nursing Times "... anyone who has a part to play in managing health services would benefit from reading it."- British Medical Journal Much has been made of the distinction between management and leadership, but in health care this separation is unhelpful. Like the first edition, this completely revised edition of Really Managing Health Care describes a model, real management that brings the two elements together and demonstrates its application in health care settings. Drawing on theory across a wide range of management disciplines and illustrating these with practical examples, Valerie Iles succinctly answers three crucial questions: How can I manage clinical professionals? How can I increase the influence of my service? What changes do I need to introduce to improve the quality of care my service is offering? Written specifically for people suspicious of management jargon, Really Managing Health Care is designed for service leaders from across health and social care, and introduces ways of approaching the management task which recognize the particular dynamics of this field.

Author : M. G. Harris,Mary G. Harris
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Employees
ISBN : 0729537595

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Managing Health Services by M. G. Harris,Mary G. Harris Pdf

Managing Health Services: Concepts and Practice 2nd edition provides a valuable practice resource for health service management students and managers. While new concepts and strategies of multidisciplinary health service management and leadership have been added, the focus remains on providing comprehensive coverage of management topics and issues faced by health services managers.

Author : Goodwin, Nick,Gruen, Reinhold,Iles, Valerie
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335218523

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Managing Health Services by Goodwin, Nick,Gruen, Reinhold,Iles, Valerie Pdf

Health care systems are highly complex and dynamic. Different systems around the world vary in the way services are managed yet, regardless of these differences, the need for effective managers and managerial leaders is essential in allowing organizations or professionals to achieve specific goals. This book provides an understanding of the concepts of management, managerial leadership and governance within health care systems. It provides a thorough introduction to, and conceptual framework for, the analysis of health systems management and goes on to examine fundamental management tasks, including: Managing income and finances Managing people Managing strategy and change Managing results

Author : Valerie Iles
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335225873

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Really Managing Health Care by Valerie Iles Pdf

Praise for the first edition: "Valerie Iles has such a sensitive no-nonsense style that she easily succeeds in seducing the reader to accept her arguments about what is going so badly wrong with management in health care ... The case studies can only be described as 'gems'... But perhaps the greatest message this book can give to the NHS, and health care managers in particular, is that change is unstoppable. All organisms must adapt with their environment or die."- Health Service Journal "Yes! This is a book that draws heavily on real-life observations with an appropriate balance of theory and pragmatism. It tackles the challenges we all face in our everday work - managing people, change, money, ourselves and organisations."- Nursing Times "... anyone who has a part to play in managing health services would benefit from reading it."- British Medical Journal Much has been made of the distinction between management and leadership, but in health care this separation is unhelpful. Like the first edition, this completely revised edition of Really Managing Health Care describes a model, real management that brings the two elements together and demonstrates its application in health care settings. Drawing on theory across a wide range of management disciplines and illustrating these with practical examples, Valerie Iles succinctly answers three crucial questions: How can I manage clinical professionals? How can I increase the influence of my service? What changes do I need to introduce to improve the quality of care my service is offering? Written specifically for people suspicious of management jargon, Really Managing Health Care is designed for service leaders from across health and social care, and introduces ways of approaching the management task which recognize the particular dynamics of this field.

Author : Neil Gopee,Jo Galloway
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781526412911

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Leadership and Management in Healthcare by Neil Gopee,Jo Galloway Pdf

Drawing on the most up-to-date policies and professional regulations, and with an emphasis on the provision of person-centred care, the authors - both of whom have backgrounds in clinical practice, education and management - show how essential leadership and management skills can be applied across a range of situations in everyday practice.

Author : Alexander Kolker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461420687

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Healthcare Management Engineering: What Does This Fancy Term Really Mean? by Alexander Kolker Pdf

This Briefs Series book illustrates in depth a concept of healthcare management engineering and its domain for hospital and clinic operations. Predictive and analytic decision-making power of management engineering methodology is systematically compared to traditional management reasoning by applying both side by side to analyze 26 concrete operational management problems adapted from hospital and clinic practice. The problem types include: clinic, bed and operating rooms capacity; patient flow; staffing and scheduling; resource allocation and optimization; forecasting of patient volumes and seasonal variability; business intelligence and data mining; and game theory application for allocating cost savings between cooperating providers. Detailed examples of applications are provided for quantitative methods such as discrete event simulation, queuing analytic theory, linear and probabilistic optimization, forecasting of a time series, principal component decomposition of a data set and cluster analysis, and the Shapley value for fair gain sharing between cooperating participants. A summary of some fundamental management engineering principles is provided. The goal of the book is to help to bridge the gap in mutual understanding and communication between management engineering professionals and hospital and clinic administrators. The book is intended primarily for hospital/clinic leadership who are in charge of making managerial decisions. This book can also serve as a compendium of introductory problems/projects for graduate students in Healthcare Management and Administration, as well as for MBA programs with an emphasis in Healthcare.

Author : Mike Bresnen,Damian Hodgson,Simon Bailey,Paula Hyde,John Hassard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317331247

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Managing Modern Healthcare by Mike Bresnen,Damian Hodgson,Simon Bailey,Paula Hyde,John Hassard Pdf

Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practice they belong to. Managing Modern Healthcare fills these important gaps in our understanding by drawing upon an in-depth study of management networks and practice in three healthcare organisations in the UK. It draws from the primary research a number of important and grounded lessons about how management networks develop and influence the spread of management knowledge and practice; how management training and development relates to the needs of managers facing challenging conditions; and how those conditions are themselves shaping the nature of management in healthcare. This book reveals how managers in practice are responding to the many contemporary challenges facing healthcare (and the NHS in particular) and how they are able or not to effectively exploit sources of knowledge, learning and best practice through the networks of practice they engage in to improve healthcare delivery and healthcare organisational performance. Managing Modern Healthcare makes a number of important theoretical contributions as well as practical recommendations. The theoretical and empirical contributions the book makes relate to wider work on networks and networking, management knowledge, situated learning/communities of practice, professionalization/professional identity and healthcare management more generally. The practical contribution comes in the form of recommendations for healthcare management practitioners and policy makers that are intended to impact upon and help enhance healthcare management delivery and performance.

Author : Jack Smith
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335232833

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EBOOK: Health Management Information Systems by Jack Smith Pdf

The growth and development of health information systems have been of a scale, and at a pace, that many health professionals are left wondering quite how to relate to the changes that have taken place. This comprehensive text is aimed at both practitioners and students, and it relates systems and management theories to applications found in health settings, and compares the best of international practice. It sets out the basic principles of health management information systems, and illustrates them with examples and case studies from a wide range of health care applications and from a number of different countries, including the USA, the UK, Germany and Australia. Ideal for practitioners, health care managers, and for undergraduate and postgraduate students in public health and clinical specializations, Health Management Information Systems shows how information can and should be best used as a management resource.

Author : Jonathon S. Rakich,Beaufort B. Longest,Kurt Darr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D01443712H

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Managing Health Services Organizations by Jonathon S. Rakich,Beaufort B. Longest,Kurt Darr Pdf

Author : Bernard J. Healey,Marc C. Marchese
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118235195

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Foundations of Health Care Management by Bernard J. Healey,Marc C. Marchese Pdf

Foundations of Health Care Management Leaders and managers throughout the health care system are facing ever more challenging changes in the way care is delivered, paid for, and evaluated. Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods offers an innovative, concise, reader-friendly introduction to health care management and administration. It addresses the need for new skills in managers of health care facilities and for those planning to enter health care management positions. The book covers such critical topics as leadership training, change management, conflict management techniques, culture building, quality improvement, and communications skills, as well as collaboration in the improvement of population health. Foundations of Health Care Management also concentrates on innovations and describes steps in the transition to more decentralized and creative approaches to the management of health care facilities. The book covers physician management from the physician's viewpoint, a valuable perspective for health care managers. The book serves important dual purposes for faculty and students by providing both insights into the health care field as well as foundational content on essential management and leadership competencies. A full set of support materials is available for instructors at the book's companion Web site.

Author : George B. Moseley
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763734169

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Managing Health Care Business Strategy by George B. Moseley Pdf

This is the definitive textbook on strategic planning and management in health care organizations for those pursuing a career in health care in undergraduate, business, and medical schools, and ancillary health professions such as nursing or physician assistant, as well as for established health care professionals, including doctors, who are completing programs and degrees in business administration to prepare themselves for greater involvement in the management of health care delivery. This book features all the basic information on strategic planning and management within the unique context of organizations concerned with the delivery and financing of health care. It notes the singular strategic environment in health care, explaining the special procedures and options available to health care organizations, and providing real-life examples in the form of case studies.

Author : Paula Hyde,Edward Granter,John Hassard,Leo McCann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317661368

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Deconstructing the Welfare State by Paula Hyde,Edward Granter,John Hassard,Leo McCann Pdf

Who are NHS middle managers? What do they do, and why and how do they do it’? This book explores the daily realities of working life for middle managers in the UK’s National Health Service during a time of radical change and disruption to the entire edifice of publicly-funded healthcare. It is an empirical critique of the movement towards a healthcare model based around HMO-type providers such as Kaiser Permanente and United Health. Although this model is well-known internationally, many believe it to be financially and ethically questionable, and often far from 'best practice' when it comes to patient care. Drawing on immersive ethnographic research based on four case studies – an Acute Hospital Trust, an Ambulance Trust, a Mental Health Trust, and a Primary Care Trust – this book provides an in-depth critical appraisal of the everyday experiences of a range of managers working in the NHS. It describes exactly what NHS managers do and explains how their roles are changing and the types of challenges they face. The analysis explains how many NHS junior and middle managers are themselves clinicians to some extent, with hybrid roles as simultaneously nurse and manager, midwife and manager, or paramedic and manager. While commonly working in ‘back office’ functions, NHS middle managers are also just as likely to be working very close to or actually on the front lines of patient care. Despite the problems they regularly face from organizational restructuring, cost control and demands for accountability, the authors demonstrate that NHS managers – in their various guises – play critical, yet undervalued, institutional roles. Depicting the darker sides of organizational change, this text is a sociological exploration of the daily struggle for work dignity of a complex, widely denigrated, and largely misunderstood group of public servants trying to do their best under extremely trying circumstances. It is essential reading for academics, students, and practitioners interested in health management and policy, organisational change, public sector management, and the NHS more broadly.

Author : Beaufort B. Longest, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780787975364

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Managing Health Programs and Projects by Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. Pdf

This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects. The book explores the decision-making process, defines the process of communicating, probes the fundamentals of program planning, explains budgeting, covers staffing for programs and projects, and explains how leaders motivate participants in health programs and projects.

Author : Iles
Publisher : Open University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0335205283

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Really Managing Health Care Bbm Edition by Iles Pdf

Author : Stephen Michael Shortell,Arnold D. Kaluzny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013802189

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Health Care Management by Stephen Michael Shortell,Arnold D. Kaluzny Pdf

This practical guide focuses on the role of the manager in health care organizations, providing a systematic, integrative treatment of individual, group and organization issues. Thid new edition includes cutting-edge topics such as multi-institutional settings, negotiation and bargaining, ethical issues and technological innovation. The focus in this edition is more on practical applications than theory. Mini-cases, discussion questions, managerial guidelines and problem exercises are also contained in the book.