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| Service integration through medical leadership in England's NHS | | Author(s) | Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe |
| Journal title | Journal of Integrated Care, vol 26, no 1, 2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2018 |
| Pages | pp 77-86 |
| Source | htttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/jica |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Management [care] ; Services ; Medical care ; Community care ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; England. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this paper was to explore the current interest in leadership within the National Health Service (NHS), especially within medicine, as a solution to the slow rate of integration of health and social care services. Leadership is a new common sense, promoted despite the limited evidence that it actually delivers. Leaders take risks, develop organisational vision and involve others in change using influence rather than hierarchic authority. They work together in ad hoc local networks, and because leaders experience the work first hand, they are trusted by fellow professionals and bring to the organisation of work a flexible, immediate, policy-oriented dynamism and pragmatic adaptability. This paper argues that the leadership movement represents a historic compromise between professionals (mostly medical) who want to shape decision making about service reconfiguration, and managers and politicians seeking ways to integrate health and social care services. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180302216 A |
| Classmark | L4: QA: I: LK: PA: QK6: QAJ: 82 |
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