The aim of this study was to understand the environment of health care, and how clinicians and managers respond in terms of performance accountability. A qualitative method was used in a tertiary metropolitan teaching ...

This paper analyses talk produced by twenty-four newly qualified anaesthetists. Data were collected from round table discussions at the Young Fellows Conference of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists ...

Contemporary western organizations are described by Hardt and Negri as involving immaterial labor in the informationalized production of both goods and services. We examine immaterial labor in relation to identity and ...

Purpose: This paper aims to present evidence for regarding reflexive practice as the crux of patient safety in tertiary hospitals. Reflexive practice buttresses safety because it is the precondition for flexible systematization ...

This article addresses the issue of how government agencies are increasingly attempting to involve users in the design of public services. The article examines codesign as a method for fostering new and purposeful interaction ...

A trial of videoconferencing of multidisciplinary breast cancer clinical meetings between three public hospitals was conducted in an attempt to increase attendance by medical staff at the meetings, and thus facilitate ...

This chapter describes how a mUlti-diSciplinary clinical team occupies its clinical space and, in particular, its corridor. When we started to observe the practices of this clinical team in a metropolitan teaching hospital ...

Community health psychology provides a framework for local citizens themselves to systematically affect change in health and social inequalities, particularly through Participatory Action Research (PAR).

Abstract Objectives: To understand patients and health professionals experience of open disclosure and to consider how open disclosure practice can inform policy. Background: Open disclosure procedures are being implemented ...