[At the heart of care management, the relationship].

The prevalence of management concerns in hospitals and a highly normative conception of health care are converging today in a standardization of care. The latter is undoubtedly at the root of the current malaise among caregivers. Indeed, the New Public Management approach is encouraging them, despite themselves, to carry out their missions to the detriment of the values of care. A more appropriate form of management would, on the contrary, be based on a continuity to be sought between care values and management values, around the notion of support. This would mean reinstating concern for interpersonal relationships at the heart of care management missions.
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