Going private: Clinicians' experience of working in UK Independent Sector Treatment Centres

Health Policy

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 172-178

  Waring, Justin ^a   Bishop, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health professions; ISTC; Organisational management; Private enterprise; Private hospitals; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT SECTOR TREATMENT CENTER; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORKFLOW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84855599325     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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