Innovating Healthcare

Name: Innovating Healthcare
Brand: Taylor & Francis > The Open University

Taylor & Francis > The Open University

Innovating HealthcareThe Role of Political, Managerial and Clinical Leadership\nAuthor(s): John Storey, Richard Holti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138603844, 978-1138603844\nSynopsis\nWhy is there a need to innovate healthcare? The basic reason stems from the sheer scale of the challenges now facing healthcare provision in the UK and across many other countries. The aim of this book is to interrogate past and current attempts to innovate in this arena and to draw-out the key lessons. \n\nInnovating Healthcare: The Role of Political, Managerial and Clinical Leadership presents the latest state of knowledge based on original data from a series of NIHR-funded research projects set in the context of a review of extensive secondary research. The book draws upon first-person verbatim accounts of change attempts made by doctors and other clinicians as well as upon research findings about the roles played by policy-me