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Risk, governance and the experience of care
Drawing on perspectives from the governmentality literature and the sociology of risk, this article explores the strategies, tools and mechanisms for managing risk in acute hospital trusts in the United Kingdom. The article uses qualitative material from an ethnographic study of four acute hospital...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356787 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12017 |
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author | Hillman, Alexandra Tadd, Win Calnan, Sian Calnan, Michael Bayer, Antony Read, Simon |
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description | Drawing on perspectives from the governmentality literature and the sociology of risk, this article explores the strategies, tools and mechanisms for managing risk in acute hospital trusts in the United Kingdom. The article uses qualitative material from an ethnographic study of four acute hospital trusts undertaken between 2008 and 2010 focusing on the provision of dignified care for older people. Extracts from ethnographic material show how the organisational mechanisms that seek to manage risk shape the ways in which staff interact with and care for patients. The article bridges the gap between the sociological analysis of policy priorities, management strategy and the organisational cultures of the NHS, and the everyday interactions of care provision. In bringing together this ethnographic material with sociological debates on the regulation of healthcare, the article highlights the specific ways in which forms of governance shape how staff care for their patients challenging the possibility of providing dignified care for older people. |
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spelling | pubmed-38139892013-11-06 Risk, governance and the experience of care Hillman, Alexandra Tadd, Win Calnan, Sian Calnan, Michael Bayer, Antony Read, Simon Sociol Health Illn Original Articles Drawing on perspectives from the governmentality literature and the sociology of risk, this article explores the strategies, tools and mechanisms for managing risk in acute hospital trusts in the United Kingdom. The article uses qualitative material from an ethnographic study of four acute hospital trusts undertaken between 2008 and 2010 focusing on the provision of dignified care for older people. Extracts from ethnographic material show how the organisational mechanisms that seek to manage risk shape the ways in which staff interact with and care for patients. The article bridges the gap between the sociological analysis of policy priorities, management strategy and the organisational cultures of the NHS, and the everyday interactions of care provision. In bringing together this ethnographic material with sociological debates on the regulation of healthcare, the article highlights the specific ways in which forms of governance shape how staff care for their patients challenging the possibility of providing dignified care for older people. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013-07 2013-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3813989/ /pubmed/23356787 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12017 Text en © 2013 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness © 2013 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness/John Wiley & Sons Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Hillman, Alexandra Tadd, Win Calnan, Sian Calnan, Michael Bayer, Antony Read, Simon Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title | Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title_full | Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title_fullStr | Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title_full_unstemmed | Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title_short | Risk, governance and the experience of care |
title_sort | risk, governance and the experience of care |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23356787 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12017 |
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