This report focuses on NHS trust mergers and mergers of health authorities. It was commissioned by the HEA to summarise the available literature. It describes common causes of failure, and suggests ways in which NHS leaders involved in merger can enable the organisational aims of the merger to be achieved, ...
This document has been produced in response to the enormous growth in activity around and interest relating to the subject of quality in healthcare. As well as the introduction of clinical governance, two new national organisations, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (N.I.C.E.) and the Commission for Health Improvement (CHImp), ...