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CHANGING CLINICAL CARE
experiences and lessons of systematization
Edited by Andrew Gray, Pieter Degeling and Hal Colebatch, respectively Academic Services for Public Management and Visiting Professor, North East Public Health Observatory; Health Services Consultant and former Professor of Health Management and Director of the Centre for Clinical Management Development, University of Durham; Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Changing Clinical Care adopts a fresh, nursing and patient-centred approach to systemisation to aid patients and their carers.
The evidence-based methodology outlines real-world experiences in various sectors of healthcare including primary care, cardiac services, general surgery, and care of long term conditions. It sheds light on possible difficulties and examines the key lessons learnt in providing effective systemisation including common problems, pit-falls and effective solutions.
It includes high profile prologues by Dame Carol Black, (Past President, Royal College of Physicians of England) Dr David Colin-Thomé (National Clinical Director for Primary Care, Department of Health, England) and Professor Alison Kitson (Executive Director, Royal College of Nursing).
This book is ideal for all healthcare professionals interested in systemising the delivery of care. It is also of great interest to healthcare policy makers and shapers, and academics and researchers.
'Systematisation is not a new idea in health care delivery, but in the approach explored thoroughly in [this] book it signifies a fresh and attractive way of tackling many demanding problems that face clinicians and health managers. A systematic approach should pervade all medicine both elective and acute, and I commend this book to clinicians and managers alike.'
Carol Black CBE
Contents
Part one: Concepts and contexts Conceptualising and practising the systematisation of care Systematisation and health policy Using a systems perspective to improve healthcare processes Empowering nursing and patient centred healthcare through the systematisation of clinical work Using data to inform systematised approaches to care delivery Part two: Experiences Searching for systematisation - and its impact Pathways in general surgery A multidisciplinary process approach to cardiac services Systematising the care of long term conditions: the year of care model A year of care pathway for COPD: problems, pitfalls and solutions from practice Making primary care systematic: successful cardiac care Assessing the content and quality of pathways The organisational elements of systematisation: the Otago experience The place of the executive in the systematisation of clinical work: the experience of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Networks and communities of practice: systematising collaboration Part three: Implications Changing clinical care and workforce development Systematisation of clinical care and health capital planning Systematisation and structures of authority Systematisation in theory and practice
Contributors
Graham Archard Nick Carty Helen Clos Janine Cochrane David Colin-Thomé Barbara Coyle Allan Cumming Barrie Dowdeswel Nigel Edwards Jonathan Erskine Chris Fokke Debra Humphris John Kennedy Alison Kitson Sharyn Maxwell David O'Regan Jane Robinson Eileen Scott Richard Steyn Kate Silvester Paul Walley David Walton Claire Whittle
2008 284 pages Paperback
ISBN-10 1 84619 202 1 ISBN-13 9781846192029
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