Purpose – Green care – the utilisation of farms as the basis for health services – is seen as a promising addition to other health services, and it is seen as a viable diversification strategy for many farm families. However, the number of such services is low both in Norway and in Europe...

Purpose – This paper sets out to investigate whether demand for gynaecological theatre time could be described in terms of the time required to undertake elective operations booked for surgery, and so help match the capacity to this. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire assessed the...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of how organisation behaviour research (OBR) helps to understand and resolve patient safety problems in health care. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes psychological, sociological and other...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the development of patient safety as a field within which patients are peripheral stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examined the patient safety movement from the perspective of a field in which agents struggle for control over...

Purpose – This paper aims to report “positively deviant” experiences of three public sector networks seeking to enhance organizational and system level capacities. It is the authors' thesis that the knowledge base concerning the true benefits and pitfalls of networks can be captured and...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe methods and models designed to build a comprehensive, integrative framework to guide the research to policy and practice cycle in health care. Design/methodology/approach – Current models of science are summarised, identifying specific challenges they...

Purpose – This article aims to examine tensions between hybrid clinician managers' professional values and health care organisations' management objectives. Design/methodology/approach – Data are from interviews conducted with, and observation of, 14 managerial participants in a Cancer...

Purpose – Management development programmes available to NHS managers focus on a performance orientation and sustain a culture of managerial and medical domination. This paper aims to question whether it is possible to consider NHS management development from a critical (empowerment culture)...