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Participation in decision-making in the health services.
- Source :
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Journal of Advanced Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell) . Jul78, Vol. 3 Issue 4, p349-358. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 1978
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Abstract
- There is widespread discussion at the present time of participation--allowing members of an organization to exert an influence on the processes of decision-making. The National Health Service is not isolated from this debate and already a number of experiments have been carried out at various levels of the service to allow a wider range of opinion to influence decisions than hitherto. This paper reports on a study the author carried out into one such exercise, designed to assist a Health Board reach decisions about the long-term pattern of health care in its area. Nurses, paramedical staff and local authority staff, as well as doctors, were appointed to a series of programme planning committees to advise the Health Board on issues of long-term policy. After 2 years of operation, a study was carried out into the operation of the committees and the lessons drawn from the experience should be relevant to actual and potential members of any consultative or decision-making body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC health
*MEDICAL care
*NURSING
*SICK people
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03092402
- Volume :
- 3
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 107761898
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1978.tb00850.x