Rhetoric or Reform? Changing Health and Social Care in Wales

Throughout the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) struggles to meet demand and achieve performance targets. Services need to work with individuals and communities to reduce avoidable disease and dependence. All four UK nations have separately realised the need for change but 20 years’...

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Autores principales: Willson, Alan, Davies, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9056148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32610719
http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2020.53
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description Throughout the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) struggles to meet demand and achieve performance targets. Services need to work with individuals and communities to reduce avoidable disease and dependence. All four UK nations have separately realised the need for change but 20 years’ experience suggests that vision and rhetoric are not enough. Success requires reformed systems and changed leadership behaviour to enable frontline staff to break the status quo. Top down, target driven behaviour must be replaced with a real focus on improvement, championing those who have the knowledge to deliver it.
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spelling pubmed-90561482022-05-04 Rhetoric or Reform? Changing Health and Social Care in Wales Willson, Alan Davies, Andrew Int J Health Policy Manag Perspective Throughout the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS) struggles to meet demand and achieve performance targets. Services need to work with individuals and communities to reduce avoidable disease and dependence. All four UK nations have separately realised the need for change but 20 years’ experience suggests that vision and rhetoric are not enough. Success requires reformed systems and changed leadership behaviour to enable frontline staff to break the status quo. Top down, target driven behaviour must be replaced with a real focus on improvement, championing those who have the knowledge to deliver it. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2020-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9056148/ /pubmed/32610719 http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2020.53 Text en © 2021 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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