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Christopher Hood presented a talk on Resistance to change across the public sector at the Guardian Public Services Summit in February 2010.
Chistopher’s PowerPoint presentation is available here.
Number 9, Winter 2010 (pdf)
The ESRC Public Services Programme Newsletter - twice-yearly issues reporting on Programme developments and keeping you up-to-date on our activities, outputs, and how you can get involved in shaping… read more
Abstract: Improved performance by public sector organizations is a political imperative in numerous countries. There are particular challenges in turnaround of poorly performing organizations. Theoretical explanations of the performance… read more
Abstract: Despite the growing popularity of the vignette methodology to deal with self-reported, categorical data, the formal evaluation of the validity of this methodology is still a topic of… read more
Abstract: This paper explores the use of anchoring vignettes as a means to adjust survey reports of health system performance for differential reporting behaviour using data contained within the… read more
Abstract: In this paper, we distinguish decisions about cooperation with medical research from decisions about research participation. We offer an empirical and theoretical exploration of why people in three different… read more
Abstract: Catheter-related blood stream infections in the intensive care unit (ICU) are common, costly, and potentially lethal. The Dec 28, 2006, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine… read more
Abstract: Ethnographic studies are valuable in studying patient safety. This is a narrative review of four reports of ethnographic studies of patient safety in UK hospitals conducted as part… read more
Abstract: Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based… read more
Abstract: The election of a Labour government in 1997 brought the issue of health inequalities firmly back on to the policy agenda across the UK. Since then, in the… read more
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