Excellence in Health Care Management

Alison Morton-Cooper MEd, RGN is Research Fellow at the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Edinburgh; Margaret Bamford PhD, MSc, RN, has a Senior Research Fellowship at the Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, and is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

"The book is lucid, scholarly and particularly well referenced. It is reasonably priced and is thus essential reading to all students of health policy and management and will be found refreshing by those intending to spend their working lives in the field of health care. It should therefore be added to the collection of each NHS trust and each university library."Journal of Advanced Nursing "Excellence in Health care Management fills a void in the present literature on the more strategic, conceptual and thought-provoking issues around nursing and nursing ethics...A must for your NHS, MBA reading list, but also for students of power, politics and feminism. It is a must, too, for nurses who see themselves going into a career structure in the millennium."Health Service Journal

• List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Section I - Excellence in Human Resources Management: Organisational change - implications for HRM; Health careers in the 21st century; Dimensions of Orgnisational Health; Section II - Key Concepts in Quality, Fianance and Information Management: Quality management in health care, Key conepts in finance and information management; Section III - Education and Training for Health Care: A critique of alternative pathways in professional and vocational education; Funding issues in education and training; "Credentialling" in health care and its implications; Section IV - Managing Paradox - The Politics of Health Care The paradox of health care provision; The paradox of caring (an art or a science?); The paradox of welfare; The paradox of technological arrogance; The paradox of human communication; The paradox of public "charterism"; Index