Background General practices have had difficulty recruiting and retaining enough general
practitioners to keep up with increasing demand for primary health care in recent years …

Policymakers in England are increasingly encouraging the formation of 'large-scale'general
practice provider collaborations with the expectation that this will help deliver better quality …

A rapidly growing range of studies apply Theories of Change or Realist Evaluation
approaches to get to grips with complex causal processes. Each methodology has been …

Objective The aim of the present study is two-fold. First, it attempts to identify the barriers and
enablers of implementing clinical commissioning policy. Second, it synthesises how these …

There is now widespread agreement on the benefits of an integrated, people-centred health
workforce, but the implementation of new models is difficult. We argue that we need to think …

Results: Identified decision-making dilemmas included 1) autonomy versus
interdependence, 2) diversity versus coherence, and 3) self-interest versus common goals …

In the context of an austere financial climate, local health care budget holders are
increasingly expected to make and enact decisions to decommission (reduce or stop …

The prevalence of mental illness is a critical public health issue. In Australia, the prevalence
of mental illness is similar across all settings, however, people living in rural and remote …

Results: The results highlighted the institutional contexts that led to difficulties in
implementing population health initiatives. They also revealed that changes in work …

This chapter focuses on the introduction and implementation of the Health and Social Care
Act (UK Legislation 2012) in England which reignited the debate about the extent to which …