This paper seeks to determine the value of theoretical ideal-types of medical control. Whilst ideal types (such as the iron cage and gaze) need revision in their application to medical settings, they remain useful in describing and explaining patterns of control and autonomy in the medical profession. The apparent transition from the cage to the gaze has often been over-stated since both types are found in many contemporary health reforms. Indeed, forms of neo-bureaucracy have emerged alongside surveillance of the gaze. These types are contextualised and elaborated in terms of two empirical examples: the management of medical performance and financial incentives for senior hospital doctors in England. Findings point towards the reformulatio...
Three different, overlapping management and control systems co-exist in healthcare delivery organisa...
The introduction of Clinical Governance into the National Health Service in England represents a fun...
Governments across the western world face new demands to achieve greater efficiency and responsivene...
As national health systems pursue the common goals of containing expenditure growth and improving qu...
This book is concerned with the sociological analysis of the professions and professional self-regul...
This paper explores recent developments in the governance of the medical profession in the United Ki...
In the last three decades, medical doctors have increasingly been exposed to management control meas...
In the last three decades, medical doctors have increasingly been exposed to management control meas...
The regulation of the medical profession in the UK has undergone a period of far-reaching reform ove...
This paper is concerned with contemporary reforms to the institutional body responsible for overseei...
This article explores the recent ferment surrounding professional self-regulation in medicine and ot...
Purpose: This paper aims to attempt to explore current transformations in hospital governance by tra...
The past decade witnessed a series of high-profile inquiries that cast a noxious miasma over the med...
This thesis explores the impact of changes in health policy introduced by Conservative administratio...
Through a study of diabetes care in post-war Britain, this book is the first historical monograph to...
Three different, overlapping management and control systems co-exist in healthcare delivery organisa...
The introduction of Clinical Governance into the National Health Service in England represents a fun...
Governments across the western world face new demands to achieve greater efficiency and responsivene...
As national health systems pursue the common goals of containing expenditure growth and improving qu...
This book is concerned with the sociological analysis of the professions and professional self-regul...
This paper explores recent developments in the governance of the medical profession in the United Ki...
In the last three decades, medical doctors have increasingly been exposed to management control meas...
In the last three decades, medical doctors have increasingly been exposed to management control meas...
The regulation of the medical profession in the UK has undergone a period of far-reaching reform ove...
This paper is concerned with contemporary reforms to the institutional body responsible for overseei...
This article explores the recent ferment surrounding professional self-regulation in medicine and ot...
Purpose: This paper aims to attempt to explore current transformations in hospital governance by tra...
The past decade witnessed a series of high-profile inquiries that cast a noxious miasma over the med...
This thesis explores the impact of changes in health policy introduced by Conservative administratio...
Through a study of diabetes care in post-war Britain, this book is the first historical monograph to...
Three different, overlapping management and control systems co-exist in healthcare delivery organisa...
The introduction of Clinical Governance into the National Health Service in England represents a fun...
Governments across the western world face new demands to achieve greater efficiency and responsivene...