- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Global Health Care Issues
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Conferences and Exhibitions Management
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Ethics in medical practice
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Hospitality and Tourism Education
University of Birmingham
2016-2025
Birmingham Research Park
2011-2024
Macquarie University
2018-2023
University of York
2005-2022
Our Lady's Hospital
2019
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
2018
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2012-2015
Iran University of Medical Sciences
2015
University of Amsterdam
2014
Purdue Pharma (Canada)
2014
Russell Mannion and Huw Davies explore how notions of culture relate to service performance, quality, safety, improvement ### Key messages If we believe the headlines, health services are suffering epidemics cultural shortcomings. Extensive enquiries into failures scandals in NHS over several decades have indicated aspects hospital as leading those failings.(box 1).12 The recent report 450 premature deaths at Gosport War Memorial Hospital mentions 21 times.3 After such reports, widespread...
Purpose To compare and contrast the cultural characteristics of “high” “low” performing hospitals in UK National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study design incorporating a purposeful sample acute hospital Trusts, as assessed by star performance rating system. Findings These studies suggest that organisations may be very different environments which to work. Although each possessed its own unique character, significant patternings were observed within cases...
An emerging trend is what has become commonly known as ‘Medical Tourism’ where patients travel to overseas destinations for specialised surgical treatments and other forms of medical care. With the rise more affordable cross-border rapid technological developments these movements are becoming commonplace. A key driver platform provided by internet gaining access healthcare information advertising. There been relatively little attention given role impact web-based inform Medical Tourism...
Debates about performance related pay seem to have moved on from whether it is desirable how make work. But <b>Russell Mannion</b> and <b>Huw Davies </b>cautionthat we still don't know enough the potential problems
To investigate the relationship between ISO 9001 certification, healthcare accreditation and quality management in European hospitals. A mixed method multi-level cross-sectional design seven countries. External teams assessed clinical services on use of systems, illustrated by four pathways. Seventy-three acute care hospitals with a total 291 managing myocardial infarction (AMI), hip fracture, stroke obstetric deliveries, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain Turkey. Four...
BackgroundIncreased mortality rates associated with weekend hospital admission (the so-called effect) have been attributed to suboptimum staffing levels of specialist consultants. However, evidence for a causal association is elusive, and the magnitude deficit remains unquantified. This uncertainty could hamper efforts by national health systems introduce 7 day services. We aimed examine preliminary associations between intensity across English National Health Service.MethodsEligible trusts...
Abstract Background Determining the optimal number of hospital beds is a complex and challenging endeavor requires models techniques which are sensitive to multi-level, uncertain, dynamic variables involved. This study identifies characterizes extant methods that can be used determine required at regional levels, comparing their advantages challenges. Methods A systematic search was conducted using Web Science, Scopus, Embase PubMed databases, with terms bed capacity, need, hospital, size,...
Introduction: This article summarizes and synthesizes the findings of four separate but inter-linked empirical projects which explored challenges collaboration in Norwegian health system from perspectives providers patients. The results are summarised eight articles.Methods: articles constituted our material. Meta-ethnography was used as a method to integrate, translate, synthesize themes concepts contained order understand how related impact on clinical work.Results: Providers' across all...
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between senior management team culture and organizational performance in English hospital organizations (NHS trusts [National Health Service]). We used an established culture-rating instrument, the Competing Values Framework, assess culture. Organizational assessed using a wide variety routinely collected measures. Data were gathered from all NHS acute trusts, total 197 organizations. Multivariate econometric analyses associations...
The recognition that health economists need to understand the meaning of data if they are adequately research findings which challenge conventional economic theory has led growth qualitative modes enquiry in economics. use methods exploration and description alongside quantitative techniques gives rise a number epistemological, ontological methodological challenges: difficulties accounting for subjectivity choices, rigour transparency method, problems disciplinary acceptability economists. Q...
<h3>Background:</h3> There is growing international interest in managing organisational culture as a lever for healthcare improvement. This has prompted practical need to understand what instruments and tools exist assessing cultures contexts. The present study was undertaken determine the assessment being used English NHS assess their fitness purpose. <h3>Methods:</h3> Postal questionnaire survey of clinical governance leads 275 organisations, with response rate 77%. <h3>Results:</h3> A...