The English National Health Service (NHS) constitutes a unique institutional context, which combines elements of hierarchy, markets and networks. This has always raised issues about competing forms of accountability. Recent policy has emphasised a move from quasi market competition towards collaboration in the form of new regional organisational arrangements known as Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs). We explore accountability relationships in STPs, focusing on the challenges of increasing horizontal accountability given existing vertical accountabilities, most notably to national regulators. We utilize a case study approach concentrated on three Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in urban and rural settings in England...
<p></p><p>Abstract This study sought to identify differences between the practices that promote acco...
Objective: To investigate the external and internal governance of NHS foundation trusts (FTs), which...
In England, the 2012 Health and Social Care Act was heralded to be among the most significant change...
OBJECTIVE: One of the key goals of the current reforms in the English National Health Service (NHS) ...
Background As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health sci...
The objectives of this article are to map and describe the formal accountability relationships of Fo...
Recent changes in the English National Health Service (NHS) have introduced new complexities into th...
Scholars have suggested that reforms associated with a shift from government to governance have fund...
Recent changes in the English National Health Service (NHS) have introduced new complexities into th...
The Health and Social care Bill sets out a radical series of reforms for the National Health Service...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the external and internal governance of NHS foundation trusts (FTs), which...
Resource constraints, value for money debates and concerns about provider behaviour have placed acco...
Objectives Shifting the focus of health-care systems towards prevention has proved difficult to achi...
Cooperative activity necessitates participants acknowledging joint goals, often delegating resources...
This article evaluates the accountability of the strategic layer of Plymouth Health Action Zone (HAZ...
<p></p><p>Abstract This study sought to identify differences between the practices that promote acco...
Objective: To investigate the external and internal governance of NHS foundation trusts (FTs), which...
In England, the 2012 Health and Social Care Act was heralded to be among the most significant change...
OBJECTIVE: One of the key goals of the current reforms in the English National Health Service (NHS) ...
Background As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health sci...
The objectives of this article are to map and describe the formal accountability relationships of Fo...
Recent changes in the English National Health Service (NHS) have introduced new complexities into th...
Scholars have suggested that reforms associated with a shift from government to governance have fund...
Recent changes in the English National Health Service (NHS) have introduced new complexities into th...
The Health and Social care Bill sets out a radical series of reforms for the National Health Service...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the external and internal governance of NHS foundation trusts (FTs), which...
Resource constraints, value for money debates and concerns about provider behaviour have placed acco...
Objectives Shifting the focus of health-care systems towards prevention has proved difficult to achi...
Cooperative activity necessitates participants acknowledging joint goals, often delegating resources...
This article evaluates the accountability of the strategic layer of Plymouth Health Action Zone (HAZ...
<p></p><p>Abstract This study sought to identify differences between the practices that promote acco...
Objective: To investigate the external and internal governance of NHS foundation trusts (FTs), which...
In England, the 2012 Health and Social Care Act was heralded to be among the most significant change...