Organising the Health Care Workforce

Professor Mark Exworthy’s is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre. Dr Jane Ferguson is a health services researcher at the University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre, Professor Justin Waring is Professor of Sociology and Dean in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University.  Professor Yvonne Zurynski leads the Coordinating Centre of the Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.

• Chapter 1: Perspectives on organising the health and care workforce Mark Exworthy, Jane Ferguson, Justin Waring and Yvonne Zurynski.- Chapter 2: Health workforce planning in Australia: evolution or devolution? Yvonne Zurynski, Genevieve Dammery, Carolynn Smith and Jeffrey Braithwaite.- Chapter 3: Planning and Organising the Healthcare Workforce: More, Better and Different Steve Gulati, Sheena Gohal and Brian Cox.- Chapter 4: The evolution – and professionalisation – of medical leadership in UK health care Simon Moralee.- Chapter 5: Drivers of unprofessional behaviour: a qualitative study of locum doctors Jane Ferguson, Gemma Stringer and Kieran Walshe.- Chapter 6: From marginalized to mastodons: How relational dynamics enhance identity formation of a low-status occupational group Marieke Van Wieringen.- Chapter 7: Organizational pre-conditions for the implementation of patient-centred care Theresa Hensel and Holger Pfaff.- Chapter 8: Exploring Human Resource Management Challenges and Their Impact on Organisational Performance in England’s Homecare Thoai Le.- Chapter 9: People and culture: at the heart of the evolution of learning health systems Carolynn L. Smith, Yvonne Zurynski, Louise A. Ellis, Genevieve Dammery,  Isabell Meulenbroeks, Gilbert Knaggs, Alex Vedovi, Georgia Fisher, Meagan Warwick, Hossai Gul and Jeffrey Braithwaite.- Chapter 10: Researching organisational behaviour in health care: assessing the contribution of workforce Mark Exworthy and Russell Mannion.