Implementing policy: 'We've given you the policy, now implement it'

Evidence, Policy and Practice: Critical Perspectives in Health and Social Care

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 71-84

  Dickinson, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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