Key Topics in Healthcare Management. Understanding the Big Picture

Description

Allied Health Professions Series
Series Foreword by Penny Humphris CBE, Former Director, NHS Leadership Centre

This stimulating series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP). This volume considers key topics in the AHPs, sets out various approaches and provides a range of information to enhance the evidence base, knowledge, understanding and skills to support managers, leaders and clinicians. It assists in managing and leading services pro-actively, effectively and efficiently. With contributions from internationally renowned professionals, Key Topics in Healthcare Management provides vital information for AHP managers and aspiring managers, senior clinicians, extended scope practitioners, clinical specialists, AHP educators, researchers, staff and students. It will also be invaluable for clinical scientists, pharmacists, optometrists and healthcare professionals working with AHPs throughout primary and secondary care.

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‘Of great value. An excellent body of work to aid those committed to improving the standards of care to patients through their good management practice. Seizing the precious opportunity for critical thinking and reflection in otherwise busy lives will be greatly aided by the writing contained here. AHPs continue to offer a unique clinical viewpoint on how we enrich the way we design and deliver healthcare. An impressive step to a better future.’
Gerry McSorley, in the Foreword

Review Quotes

'Could be useful to any healthcare worker.' PHYSIOTHERAPY

Contents

• Public policy reforms and the National Health Service strategic development agenda
• Managing change: a framework for the management of change
• Care pathways and the allied health professional
• Communication and the health professional
• Managing staff and human resources
• Getting it right: the quality of care
• User involvement in services for disabled people
• Corporate governance and the health professional
• Organisational behaviour: understanding people in healthcare organisations
• Managing health and safety in the workplace
• Managing work-related stress

Edited by Robert Jones and Fiona Jenkins, respectively Head of Therapy Services, East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust; Non-medical Clinical Director of Therapy Services, South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Foreword by Gerry McSorley, Director, Centre for Health Improvement and Leadership, Visiting Professor in Healthcare Management and Leadership, University of Lincoln and President, Institute of Healthcare Management

Contributors

Helen Anderson Rosalie A Boyce Sally French Alan Gillies Gail Louw Laura McDonnell Anne Mandy Sharon Mickan Patricia Oakley Tove Steen Sørensen-Bentham Claire Sullivan John Swain