The drive to reform the public health care system became a common feature of Australia's
political and economic landscape from the early 1980s. Health care reform in Australia has …

For Freidson [(1985). The reorganisation of the medical profession. Medical Care Review,
42 (1), 11–35], collegiality, or ostensible equal status amongst members of the medical …

This study contributes to research examining how professional autonomy and hierarchy
impacts upon the implementation of policy designed to improve the quality of public services …

We argue in this chapter that the accountability movement of the late 1970s onwards
succeeded in its tacit intention to curtail the power of the public service professions …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the way gender may be used as an
instrument to avoid New Public Management (NPM) potential processes of …

Health systems can be seen as the way a country assumes and then exerts collective
responsibility for protection against the risks of injury and illness. Those risks include the …

Accessible summary• This paper describes how guidance about good practice for
commissioning services for people with learning disabilities was developed in Scotland.• …

This thesis describes the methods by which individuals and associations give meaning to
the concept of profession within the English building industry in the late modern period. The …

This chapter investigates the imputed" fall" and subsequent “reinvention" of the BBC during
the 1990s, relating a managerialist" politics of forgetting" to the broader ideological …