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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. The Geographical Basis of Organisation -- The Development of NHS Organisation -- Dislocations in the System -- 2. Regional Variations in Need and Provision -- Needs, Demands, Supply and Use -- Geographical Redistribution -- 3. The Location of Primary Care -- General Medical Practitioners -- Community Nurses -- Health Centres -- Dental, Ophthalmic and Pharmaceutical Services -- Other Primary Health Services -- 4. The Location of Hospitals -- Policies and Trends -- Centralisation versus Dispersal -- Regional Disparities -- 5. Transport to Health Services -- Personal Mobility -- Voluntary Transport Schemes -- The Ambulance Service -- 6. Health Care in Rural Areas -- Effects of Inaccessibility -- Isolated Rural Areas -- Policy Options -- 7. Health Care in the Inner City -- Characteristics of Inner-city Populations -- The Acheson Report -- Conditions outside London -- Policy Issues -- 8. Health Services for All -- Geographical Impact of Private Health Services -- Interdependence of Social Welfare Services -- Priorities in the NHS -- Radical Proposals for Change -- Towards Geographical Equity -- References -- Index.

1. Management, professions and the public service context -- 2. What is complexity? -- 3. Strategy and planning in an unstable world -- 4. Complexity and the performance of public services -- 5. Information management -- 6. People in public organizations -- 7. Conclusion.

"The application of complexity theory to management and the social sciences has been a key development in theory and practice over the last decade. This approach questions the possibility of finding universal methods of practice, and proposes a pragmatic and humanistic management style that evolves out of a reflective method. The focus is on practitioners observing patterns of similarity and being adaptable in decision-making. Bringing complexity theory into management reveals the importance of organizational culture and effective communication because people, their values and their objectives are at the heart of this method. Information technology provides a framework for complex communication and knowledge use, but it cannot replace highly developed professional negotiations and cooperation. This book argues that the complexity of the public service world limits the usefulness of classical and rational scientific management approaches such as New Public Management. Excessive marketization threatens a collaborative approach and overly rigid approaches to performance management and strategic management can be dysfunctional. Managing Complexity in the Public Services 2nd Edition advances a method of management practice that copes with the stark realities of the complex and unpredictable public policy world. It develops pragmatic management practices from action research that will be valuable to both academics and practitioners. The result is a new value-based practice for the post-crisis public service world"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Faith-Based Organizations at the United Nations -- 2 Religious Resurgence and Postsecular International Relations -- 3 Faith-Based Organizations at the United Nations: Th eory and Practice -- 4 Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights -- 5 International Development and the Millennium Development Goals -- 6 Human Rights and "Defamation of Religion" -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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