What kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this
mean for the caring practices and interventions of local activists? Shedding new light on …

Smaller hospitals internationally are under threat. The narratives around the closure of
smaller hospitals, regardless of size and location, are all constructed around three common …

Medical leaders occupy a prominent position in healthcare policy in many countries, both in
terms of the governance of quality and safety within healthcare organisations, and in …

The Danish hospital landscape has been continuously restructured since the early 2000s. A
structural reform reorganized the public sector, and a hospital reform restructured the …

This paper considers the 'affective turn'within social sciences, alongside the shift to a more
emotional public and political sphere, and the implications of these shifts for the study of …

Hospital closures have been a dominant cultural trope of the National Health Service (NHS)
for decades, and a keystone of public engagement with the British health system …

Within public administration, coproduction is a ubiquitous policy discourse, and increasingly
an analytic lens through which public relationships with public services are viewed. This …

Change is an enduring facet of health care policy and practice. Service change ranges from
far reaching macro-level political reforms such as the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 in …

Previous studies of service reconfiguration in healthcare have explored the influence of
power on processes and outcomes. However, in these accounts the moral agency of …

In the wake of hospital reforms introduced in 2011 in Turkey, public hospitals were grouped
into associations with joint management and some shared operational and administrative …