M. Learmonth
Making History Critical: Recasting a History of the “Management” of the British National Health Service
Learmonth, M.
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Abstract
Purpose: This article explores a possible discursive history of NHS ‘management’ (with management, for reasons that will become evident, very much in scare quotes). Such a history is offered as a complement, as well as a counterpoint, to the more traditional approaches that have already been taken to the history of the issue. Design/methodology/approach: Document analysis and interviews with UK NHS Trust Chief Executives. Findings: After explicating the assumptions of the method it suggests, through a range of empirical sources that the NHS has undergone an era of administration, an era of management and an era of leadership. Research limitations/implications: The paper enables a recasting of the history of the NHS; in particular, the potential for such a discursive history to highlight the interests supported and denied by different representational practices. Practical implications: Today’s so-called leaders are leaders because of conventional representational practices – not because of some essence about what they really are. Originality/value: The value of thinking in terms of what language does – rather than what it might represent.
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Learmonth, M. (2017). Making History Critical: Recasting a History of the “Management” of the British National Health Service. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 31(5), 542-555. https://doi.org/10.1108/jhom-11-2016-0213
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 17, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 21, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 21, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Feb 22, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 23, 2017 |
Journal | Journal of Health Organization and Management |
Print ISSN | 1477-7266 |
Publisher | Emerald |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 542-555 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/jhom-11-2016-0213 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1363126 |
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