Product Description: The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary HCA role has become increasingly central to the process of health service modernization...read more

Product Description: The last five decades have seen a sea-change in business and in management studies. The world of business has been transformed by powerful forces: globalization, IT, outsourcing and all manner of organizational reshaping and flattening...read more

Product Description: Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures...read more

Product Description: This book addresses the topic of leadership in healthcare. There is a great deal of rhetoric around leadership but the reality is that there is no 'best way' of leading, this book explores the rhetoric with papers that contribute insights into; taking healthcare forward in the 21st Century; the nature of leadership in healthcare; and organisational forms that are leading the field...read more

Product Description: * A practical introduction to the business of management for doctors and managers at all levels * This simple guide provides easy-to-use tools and techniques * It explains jargon presents managerial tasks in context and provides managerial models