Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 31 Issue 5

Critical healthcare management studies: green shoots

Martin Kitchener, Aoife M. McDermott, Simon Cooper

While critical approaches have enriched research in proximate fields, their impact has been less marked in studies of healthcare management. In response, the 2016 Organizational…

Making history critical: Recasting a history of the “management” of the British National Health Service

Mark Learmonth

The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible discursive history of National Health Service (NHS) “management” (with management, for reasons that will become evident, very…

Using the concept of hubots to understand the work entailed in using digital technologies in healthcare

Catherine Pope, Joanne Turnbull

The purpose of this paper is to explore the human work entailed in the deployment of digital health care technology. It draws on imagined configurations of computers and machines…

Exploring health work: a critical-action perspective

John Hassard, Paula Hyde, Julie Wolfram Cox, Edward Granter, Leo McCann

The purpose of this paper is to describe a hybrid approach to the research developed during a multi-researcher, ethnographic study of NHS management in the UK.

Bringing humanity into view: action research with Qatar’s ambulance service

Gill Coleman, Liz Wiggins

The purpose of this paper is to argue for the widening of attention in healthcare improvement efforts, to include an awareness of the humanity of people who work in the sector and…

Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals

Ruth McDonald, Vivek Furtado, Birgit Völlm

The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of context by shedding light on the relationship between context and organisational actors’ abilities to resolve ongoing…