The NHS: Busting the myths

"The NHS Confederation is publishing a series of myth busters, which challenge common misconceptions and enrich the debates on topical, sometimes controversial, issues regarding our health and care." These are the first three:

• Primary care in the NHS 
• Competition in the NHS 
• NHS Managers

The role of hospital managers in quality and patient safety

"We present a model to summarise the conditions and activities that affect quality performance."

The role of hospital managers in quality and patient safety: a systematic review
A Parand, S Dopson, A Renz, C Vincent
BMJ Open, 2014:4:2005055

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Clinicians in management

"Managers' professional background may be both a resource and constraint, and also determine the influence strategies they use."

Clinicians in management: a qualitative study of managers' use of influence strategies in hospitals
I Spehar, JC Frich, LE Kjekshus
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:251

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The role of informal networks in creating knowledge among health-care managers

"Managers of health and well-being services develop and maintain knowledge collectively."

The role of informal networks in creating knowledge among health-care managers: a prospective case study
V Ward, R West, S Smith, S McDermott, J Keen, R Pawson, A House
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2014, 2(12)

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Responding to service user involvement in mental health services

"The background to this report is the increasing policy emphasis on user involvement in health service planning and delivery, specifically in mental health, and theoretical frameworks concerned with organisational change and new social movements."

How do managers and leaders in the National Health Service and social care respond to service user involvement in mental health services in both its traditional and emergent forms? The ENSUE study
D Rose, M Barnes, M Crawford, E Omeni, D MacDonald, A Wilson
National Institute for Health Research
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2014, 2(10)

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New evidence on management and leadership

"Public concern about patient care has highlighted uncertainties about the current role and nature of managers in today’s NHS. This digest presents key findings from fourteen new studies on leadership and management practice."

New evidence on management and leadership
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
National Institute for Health Research
December 2013

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Primary healthcare in transition

"This qualitative study shows the complexity of the system change and describes the different effects and perceptions of the transition from a manager's perspective. "

Primary healthcare in transition -- a qualitative study of how managers perceived a system change
A Maun, K Nilsson, C Furaker, J Thorn
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:382

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Quest for integrated health and social care

"Canterbury provides much food for thought for the many clinicians, funders and managers interested in better demand management in primary care, allied to significant improvements in hospital efficiency that in turn have an impact on the use of social care."

Quest for integrated health and social care: a case study in Canterbury, New Zealand
N Timmins, C Ham
The King's Fund
September 2013

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How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation?

"Local commissioners and managers need to build the critical use of research evidence and evaluation into health policy implementation at local level in order to provide consistent and effective healthcare services."

How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation? Results from a mixed methods study
BA Evans, H Snooks, H Howson, M Davies
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:17

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Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers

"Systematic review evidence may be used in priority setting, policy, planning and purchasing health-care interventions, and clinical decision-making."

Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians
Murthy L, Shepperd S, Clarke MJ, Garner SE, Lavis JN, Perrier L, Roberts NW, Straus SE
Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group
The Cochrane Library
September 2012

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Self management support resource centre

This self management support area has been developed by The Health Foundation, to support healthcare professionals, service managers and commissioners develop their understanding of self management support.

Find out more here.