Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts

Healthcare managers, professionals, and service users operate in a complex environment with competing narratives and contradictory policies, leading to responses, adaptations, and improvisations. This edited volume investigates how contemporary policy trends influence healthcare systems, organizations, and professions and explores how policy implementation can be enacted, resisted, and reinvented by healthcare managers and professionals.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 322 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

In the realm of healthcare, managers, professionals, and service users find themselves navigating an increasingly intricate landscape characterized by complex policy, regulation, and governance arrangements. The policy process itself is evolving, with competing narratives emerging to shape practice. As a result, healthcare stakeholders are presented with a bewildering array of contradictory and inconsistent policies, leading to a diverse range of responses, adaptations, and improvisations throughout the policy implementation journey. The impact on managerial and professional practice is profound, as some voices may be suppressed or overlooked, while the complex nature of contemporary policy contexts can also empower local actors to exercise their agency and advance their agendas.

To delve into these dynamics, this edited volume explores how contemporary policy trends are shaping healthcare systems, organizations, and professions. It examines the various strategies employed by healthcare managers and professionals to navigate and influence policy implementation, as well as the challenges and opportunities they encounter along the way. Part I of the volume focuses on policy development, shedding light on the processes and actors involved in shaping policy agendas. Part II delves into the translation of policy into practice, exploring the barriers and enablers that influence the effective implementation of policies at the local level. Part III, meanwhile, focuses on the activities of organizational leaders who are tasked with making sense of and succeeding in challenging policy contexts.

Through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach, this edited volume provides valuable insights into the complex web of connections between policy development, practice, and organizational leadership. It serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners alike, offering a deeper understanding of the dynamics and complexities of contemporary healthcare policy and its impact on the delivery of healthcare services.

Weight: 455g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030810955
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021