Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

The social identity of hospital consultants as managers

Vincent Russell, Laura A. Wyness, Eilish McAuliffe, Martin Fellenz

This paper aims to explore hospital consultants' social identification, in terms of perceptions of their position in society, the salient targets for their social identification…

International medical graduates in Australian news: a media narrative analysis

Gil‐Soo Han

The paper aims to analyse how the medical profession, the pro‐competition organisation, and the rural community have responded to the rural doctor shortage with reference to…

Leadership in health care: Developing a post‐merger strategy for Europe's largest university hospital

B.P. Geisler, K.F. Widerberg, A. Berghöfer, S.N. Willich

This paper's aim is to identify existing and developing new concepts of organization, management, and leadership at a large European university hospital; and to evaluate whether…

The ethics of data collection: unintended consequences?

Delia Wainwright, Sally Sambrook

The aims is to consider the political and ethical challenges involved in conducting ethnographic managerial/organisational behaviour research within the highly regulated health…

Medical assistants: the invisible “glue” of primary health care practices in the United States?

Stephanie Taché, Laura Hill‐Sakurai

Little attention has been given to the field of medical assisting in US health services to date. To explore the roles medical assistants (MAs) currently play in primary care…

Implementing an emergency department patient admission predictive tool: Insights from practice

Melanie Jessup, Marianne Wallis, Justin Boyle, Julia Crilly, James Lind, David Green, Peter Miller, Gerard Fitzgerald

This paper aims to show that identification of expectations and software functional requirements via consultation with potential users is an integral component of the development…