How One British National Health Service Trust Follows the Path to Continuous Quality Improvement

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Emir OʼSullivan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Continuous Quality Improvement ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
National Health Service Trust ◽  
British National Health

The costs of nursing turnover: evidence from the British National Health Service

Health Policy ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair M. Gray ◽  
V.L. Phillips ◽  
Charles Normand
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Nursing Turnover ◽  
British National Health

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Leonard
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Organizational Sociology ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British National Health ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities such as gender. This paper draws on research conducted with doctors and nurses in the British National Health Service to reveal the ambiguities which exist in the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to these discourses. The discourses of work and organization are constantly mediated through, and destabilised by, the intertextuality that exists with competing discourses such as those of professionalism, gender, home and performance. Although organizational discourses are clearly powerful in the construction and performance of subjectivities, the interplay between discourses means that these are constantly destabilised and undermined.

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