Public Service Governance and Management (PSGM) Research Group seminar
Abstract: The NHS is the archetypal public service. Even though it has been subject to forms of new public management since the 1980s, it is only in the past decade or so that it has become more commercial in its structures and practices. The extent of commercialisation has largely remained hidden from public debate (in the face of other pressures) but it has far-reaching consequences for this public service. This presentation draws on recent research to examine the scale and impact of commercial income of NHS Trusts in England for the wider NHS and its staff.
Papers:
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2023.2243775
- https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12797
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1795359
Lunch will be offered 12.00-12.40, after which a special talk on applying for NIHR grants will follow.
About the speaker: Mark Exworthy is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. His research interests lie in professional-managerial relations, governance, health policy implementation. His latest book is “The NHS at 75: the state of UK health policy” (2023, Policy Press). He is chair of the Society for Studies in Organising Healthcare (www.shoc.org.uk; a learned society of the Academy of Social Sciences) which sponsors the biennial Organisational Behaviour in Health Care conference.
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