Foundation trusts (FTs) have been a central part of the government's National Health
Service (NHS) reforms in England since 2004. They illustrate the government's claim to …

In addition to introducing markets and market‐like structures into public services, New
Labour wished to promote the involvement of users and the public in decision‐making in …

Decentralisation has returned as a key theme in English health policy in recent years in
policies such as Patient Choice and Foundation Trusts, among many others. The goal of …

Purpose–The paper aims to investigate the collective behaviour of boards of directors in 22
English National Health Service trusts and how this impacts on the exercise of their role and …

Background Hospitals are increasingly parts of larger care collaborations, rather than
individual entities. Organizing and operating these collaborations is challenging; a …

This project will examine the inter-relationship between governance mechanisms, autonomy
and incentives in local health economies (LHEs). This interaction shapes decentralisation …

Objectives To determine the extent to which services provided to older people via
community mental health teams (CMHTs) vary in duration, composition and intensity. In …

This article reports the findings of a year-long research project focused on the activity of
boards of directors of twenty-two trusts from the British National Health Service (NHS). The …

This thesis considers how policy 'works' as an instrument of governance. I report an
ethnographic study of health care policy in the contested field of hospital planning. In this …

Boards of directors play an increasingly fundamental role in British NHS trusts as well as
other parts of the public sector. This study shows that their effectiveness is compromised by …