Understanding and Managing Change in Healthcare

Understanding and Managing Change in Healthcare
Author: Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1350310697

Change happens constantly in healthcare contexts and professionals, whether newly qualified or managing staff, need to be ready to understand, adapt to, manage and implement change as necessary whilst continuing to work effectively in busy environments. Unlike most change management texts, this book focuses specifically on change in frontline healthcare practice. It covers the process of change from problem identification, to evaluation of new practice, to continuation of change. Offering practical guidance in an accessible style, all health professionals alike should not be without this book.

Managing Change in Healthcare

Managing Change in Healthcare
Author: Paul Parkin
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1412922593

The management of change in the context of new policy directives and agendas is a critical issue for healthcare practitioners. All professionals – not just managers - need to develop and implement new services designed to bring patients into the centre of healthcare delivery. This book looks at the leadership, interpersonal, and management skills needed to manage such change effectively within multi-professional healthcare settings.

Challenging Perspectives on Organizational Change in Health Care

Challenging Perspectives on Organizational Change in Health Care
Author: Louise Fitzgerald
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317428005

This volume provides theory and research on organizational change and predominantly features the application of these ideas to the health care domain, broadly defined. It addresses enduring issues in advancing to an effective health care system. The aim of this book is to offer an accessible and readable text aimed at provoking thought and questioning, and aiding creativity. It proffers arguments and ideas which are firmly based in empirical data and evidence, so that the reader may make informed personal evaluations. This book is designed to furnish a comprehensive theoretical basis for understanding organizational change in health care, as well as selected core issues of contemporary and future importance to the provision of effective care within sustainable systems. A series of coherent themes are addressed throughout the book from differing perspectives. However, every chapter has been written to standalone and be read independently. Each offers resources relevant to its’ focal topic, in the form of references, case studies and critique. Setting out a future research agenda, the book will be vital reading for organizational change researchers and practitioners in the healthcare industry.

Leading Change in Healthcare

Leading Change in Healthcare
Author: Anthony L. Suchman
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1846194482

The challenge of transforming organizational culture is at the heart of many key movements in contemporary healthcare, and understanding culture change has become a core leadership competency. However, much current practice is based on antiquated and psychologically unsophisticated theories, leaving leaders inadequately prepared for the complex task of implementing change. Leading Change in Healthcare presents relationship-centered administration, an effective new evidence-based alternative to traditional culture change methodologies. It integrates fresh insights and methods from complexity science, positive psychology and relationship-centered care, enabling a more spontaneous and reflective approach to change management. This fosters greater organizational awareness and real participation, as well as improved productivity and creativity, as well as staff recruitment and retention. Case studies drawn from primary care, hospitals, long-term care, professional education, international NGOs and other settings, rather than emphasizing the end results, are demonstrations of how to apply relationship-centered administration in everyday practice. Leading Change in Healthcare is a key resource for all practitioners, students and teachers of healthcare management, medical educators, and leaders in all areas of healthcare provision. 'We need a new way of seeing, a new way of leading - and the authors provide a clear guide and resources for the path ahead. Leading Change in Healthcare offers hope - and a method. A daily dose is just what the change doctor ordered.' from the Foreword by Carol Aschenbrener

Managing Change in the NHS

Managing Change in the NHS
Author: Trudy Upton
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1995-01-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 033523304X

Change has come rapidly and radically to the NHS in recent years, but the day-today work of clinical departments and the priority of patient care remain. The impact of managing change has fallen on health care staff, who face conflicting demands, rising expectations, policy changes and cost pressures, while still needing to ensure that patient care is delivered. This book offers them key insights into the effective management of change. It gives practical tools and techniques for planning and managing change projects that affect individuals, departments, teams and organizations. Drawing on many years' experience, the authors explain the different stages of introducing change, offering clear advice on the many issues involved in both complex and relatively straightforward projects. They discuss change in the NHS context and consider in detail the core principles: effects of change on individuals, groups and organizations managing a change project - from diagnosis to transition overcoming resistance reaching and maintaining the change goals personal change management skills. This is a practical guide, full of checklists, action plans and case studies, and is designed to improve professional practice. It is essential reading for health managers.

Key Topics in Healthcare Management

Key Topics in Healthcare Management
Author: Robert Jones
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007
Genre: Health services administration
ISBN: 1857757084

Focusing on matters relevant to the development, provision and maintenance of best quality services for patients, clients and service users, this title presents management, leadership and professional development advice to allied health professions.

Leading and Managing Healthcare

Leading and Managing Healthcare
Author: Neil Gopee
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2022-03-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1529786738

This textbook has been created to support the journey from emerging registered healthcare professional through to becoming a competent frontline care setting manager. It considers the seminal theories and research into leadership and management and places them firmly into the healthcare context providing the reader with thorough and robust guidance in the application of the knowledge base in the subject area. Key features: Integration of theory and practice using Action Points and case studies throughout Includes perspectives from a wide range of healthcare settings and professional groups Each chapter includes ′Guidance on good practice′ showing what high-quality care and effective change looks like Written by a vastly experienced author, practitioner and educator, this latest book from Neil Gopee is essential reading for nursing, health and social care students taking modules on leadership, management and transition to practice in their final year. It is also ideal for newly qualified professionals or those moving into band 5 or 6 roles with managerial responsibilities.

The Sustainability and Spread of Organizational Change

The Sustainability and Spread of Organizational Change
Author: David A. Buchanan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415370943

This important book examines issues affecting the sustainability and spread of new working practices. The question of why good ideas do not spread, 'the best practices puzzle', has been widely recognized. But the 'improvement evaporation effect', where successful changes are discontinued, has attracted less attention. Keeping things the way they are has been seen as an organizational problem to be resolved, not a condition to be achieved. This is one of the first major studies of the sustainability of change focusing on the example of the NHS, by a unique team of health service and academic researchers. The findings may apply to a variety of other settings. The agenda set out in 2000 in The NHS Plan is perhaps the largest organization development programme ever undertaken, in any sector, anywhere. The NHS thus offers a valuable 'living laboratory' for the study of change. This text shows that sustainability and spread are influenced by a range of issues - contextual, managerial, political, individual, and temporal. Developing a processual perspective, this fresh analysis considers policy implications, and strategies for managing sustainability and spread. This book will be essential reading for students, managers, and researchers concerned with the effective implementation of organizational change.

A Sense of Urgency

A Sense of Urgency
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008
Genre: Leadership
ISBN: 1422179710

In his international bestseller "Leading Change," Kotter provided an action plan for implementing successful transformations. Now, he shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change.

Improving Patient Care

Improving Patient Care
Author: Richard Grol
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2013-03-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 111852599X

As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within complex organizations. It is necessary to understand the consequences of introducing change, how to best implement new procedures and techniques, how to evaluate success and to improve the quality of patient care. This comprehensive guide allows you to do just that. Improving Patient Care, 2nd edition provides a structure for professionals and change agents to implement better practices in health care. It helps health professionals, managers, policy makers and researchers to assess new techniques and select and implement change in their organizations. This new edition includes recent evidence and further coverage on patient safety and patient centred strategies for change. Written by an international expert author team, Improving Patient Care is an established standard text for postgraduate students of health policy, health services and health management. The strong author team are global professors involved in managing research and development in the field of quality improvement, evidence-based practice and guidelines, quality assessment and indicators to improve patient outcomes through receiving appropriate healthcare.