The Sustainability and Spread of Organizational Change

'This book is a must for those planning and implementing change. Its key message is that sustainability and spread are intimately linked and it helpfully outlines the complex mediators of such challenging social processes. For those researching health care settings, the book offers significant insights into relevant theory and signposts valuable scholarship in this area.' Sue Dopson, Rhodes Trust University Reader in Organisational Behaviour, Sad Business School, University of Oxford 'The NHS Modernisation Agency supported a wide-ranging attempt to reform a major public service. Drawing on case studies from five years of that experience, this volume brings a rare combination of intellectual rigour and practical insight to two of the central challenges that confront such programmes of change. It will prove a valuable resource to managers, practitioners, students and researchers in healthcare and beyond.' Edward Peck, Professor of Public Services Development and Director, Health Services Management Centre and School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham 'This book is a must for those planning and implementing change. Its key message is that sustainability and spread are intimately linked and it helpfully outlines the complex mediators of such challenging social processes. For those researching health care settings, the book offers significant insights into relevant theory and signposts valuable scholarship in this area.' Sue Dopson, Rhodes Trust University Reader in Organisational Behaviour, Sad Business School, University of Oxford 'The NHS Modernisation Agency supported a wide-ranging attempt to reform a major public service. Drawing on case studies from five years of that experience, this volume brings a rare combination of intellectual rigour and practical insight to two of the central challenges that confront such programmes of change. It will prove a valuable resource to managers, practitioners, students and researchers in healthcare and beyond.' Edward Peck, Professor of Public Services Development and Director, Health Services Management Centre and School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham

David A. Buchanan, Louise Fitzgerald, Diane Ketley

Part 1: Context 1. Changing by Numbers 2. Improvement Evaporation: Why Do Successful Changes Decay? 3. The Best Practices Puzzle: Why are New Methods Contained and not Spread? Part 2: Experience 4. View from the Top: Opening the Box on Spread and Sustainability 5. Shades of Resistance: Understanding and Addressing Scepticism 6. Tracking Sustainability: Lessons from the Patient Booking Timeline 7. Spreading and Sustaining Change: The Patient Booking Case Experience 8. Layers of Leadership: Hidden Influencers of Healthcare Improvement 9. Spreading and Sustaining Change: The Cancer Collaborative Case Experience 10. High Impact: Key Changes in Cancer Care 11. Spreading can be Easy: The See and Treat Experiment Part 3: Implications 12. The Sustainability and Spread Story: Contributions to Theory 13. Sustaining Change and Avoiding Containment: Practice and Policy 14. Researching Major Change: Issues and Dilemmas