Health professionals’ views of contracting for infection control in the NHS internal market
| Autor: | Jennifer A. Roberts, Kate Archibald, Shirley Crawshaw, Pauline Allen, L. Taylor, Bronwyn Croxson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Infection Control
Health professionals Attitude of Health Personnel Infection Control Practitioners business.industry education Health services research MEDLINE General Medicine Contract Services Public relations Domestic market State Medicine United Kingdom humanities Professional networks Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires Health care National study Humans Infection control Health Services Research business health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Management in Medicine. 16:20-33 |
| ISSN: | 0268-9235 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/02689230210428607 |
| Popis: | This paper reports a national study which investigated the involvement of infection control professionals in (and their views about) the formal processes of contracting for health care in the NHS internal market. Health care professionals needed to be involved contracting, if it was to be effective. The study found that many infection control professionals were not, in fact, involved in contracting, while the importance of both contracts and informal professional networks were recognised. But respondents did not think that their professional networks entirely compensated for their lack of involvement in contracting. As formal agreements continue to be central to achieving quality of care in the post‐internal market NHS, infection control professionals need to be involved in specification and implementation of these arrangements. |
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