Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism : : A Cost-Benefit Analysis.

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (145 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 International Mobility and Learning in the UK National Health Service
  • Supporting Career Mobility in Resource Constrained Environments: The UK NHS
  • Objectives
  • The MOVE Study: Methods
  • Notes
  • 2 Internationalisation and Placement Activity in the UK National Health Service
  • Introduction
  • The NHS Staff Survey
  • Cadre
  • Career Stage
  • Results
  • Sample Characteristics
  • International Placements
  • Placement Location
  • Gender
  • Nationality
  • Career Stage
  • Length of Stay
  • Age Group and Length of Stay
  • Multiple Placement Experience
  • Summary
  • 3 What Do Health Workers Learn on International Placements?
  • Introduction
  • Continuing Professional Development in the National Health Service
  • Knowledge Mobilisation through Professional Voluntarism
  • Clinical Skills
  • Leadership
  • Learning from Failure
  • Communication
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Teaching, Research and Presentational Skills
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 4 Managing Costs and Risks
  • Background: the NHS in Fiscal Crisis?
  • Professional Voluntarism and 'Brain Drain'
  • Skills Wastage
  • Exposure to Risk and Vicarious Liability
  • Culture and 'Racial' Stereotyping
  • Avoiding Risks through International Placements in High-Resource Settings?
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • 5 Conclusions: Towards a Model for Sustainable Professional Volunteering
  • Introduction: Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Brokers
  • Mobility 'Metrics' and Equality Issues
  • Length of Stay on International Placements
  • Towards a Model for Sustainable Professional Volunteering
  • Sustainable and Ethical Deployment
  • Scenario 1: Partial Improvement (Positive Change)
  • Scenario 2: Neutral Impact (No Change)
  • Scenario 3: Negative Impact (Collateral Damage).
  • Volunteer Management
  • Transparent and Equitable Recruitment Process
  • Age and Seniority
  • Volunteer 'Matching'
  • Supervision, Risk and the Co-Presence Principle
  • Building Relationships with Professional Volunteers: Induction through to Debriefing
  • Risk Mitigation and Administrative Issues
  • Notes
  • Appendix 1 Data Collection and Methods
  • Interviews
  • Documentary Analysis
  • Ethnographic and Observational Work
  • Data from the Sustainable Volunteering Project (SVP)
  • Ethical Approval
  • Note
  • Appendix 2 The Sustainable Volunteering Project
  • Background and Objectives
  • Volunteer Management and Support
  • Selection
  • Placement Logistics
  • Placement Support
  • Project Evaluation
  • Volunteer Deployment in the SVP
  • Appendix 3 The Move Survey
  • References
  • Index.