The Challenge to Change : Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom / / Rebecca Kolins Givan.
There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, New York ;, London, [England] : : ILR Press,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and politics of health care work.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Health care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: a lifetime of change
- Turbulence in the two systems
- Measuring and rewarding performance: imposing change from above in the United Kingdom
- Regulating the frontline from above: the joint commission and hospital regulation in the United States
- Pushing back from the frontline: staff responses to privatization in the National Health Service
- Building a safety culture from the frontline in the United States
- From the health care workplace to the health care system: learning from the United States and United Kingdom.