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With the NHS committed to making quality the centre of treatment, clinical audit - a proven and effective process for measuring quality and driving its improvement - has never been a more topical issue.

Over the last 30 years, partnership has received growing attention across a range of sectors and disciplines.

Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before.

Series Editor: Michael Rigby This completely up-to-date resource equips readers with practical tools to understand and apply health economic methods.

High-quality Allied Health delivery through a motivated, committed and expert workforce depends on strong management and leadership.

This book addresses the needs of new clinical engineers, junior nurses, medics and operating department practitioners (ODPs) with regard to the fundamentals of many of the standard medical devices they will encounter in a hospital environment.

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions.

With economic winter facing many healthcare and health education budgets, the high costs of medical education are bringing it under close scrutiny.

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective.

This book is a detailed reference on biomedical applications using Deep Learning.

The "e;Serious Leisure Perspective"e; (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience.

Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Management is a collection of the papers presented at the 2nd International Conference of Structural Health Monitoring and Integrity Management (ICSHMIM2014, Nanjing, China, 24-26 September 2014), and addresses the most recent developments in the field of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and integrity ma

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing countries embarking on the path of democracy and economic development.

In times of rising expectations and decreasing resources for the public sector, performance management is high on the agenda.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate the use of business-driven risk assessments within the privacy impact assessment process to meet the requirements of privacy laws.

In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing--shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time.

Intercultural communication is a necessary skill for those who work in the public and nonprofit sectors, and yet there is a dearth of literature available to help public and nonprofit professionals develop an ability to effectively communicate, interact, and lead in a multicultural society.

Mastering RFP solicitations is a critical skill required of every public procurement professional.

This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning.

3D bioprinting is an emerging innovative technology that involves the fabrication of essential 3D functional biomedical constructs by combining cells and biomaterials with vital growth and differentiation factors.

This book provides a comprehensive review of synthesis and physicochemical and biological characterization of novel antibacterial biomaterials produced according to original procedures and aimed at medical applications such as wound dressing, soft and hard tissue implants, drug delivery devices, and carriers for cell cultivation.

Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme.

This book provides a proficient guide on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and healthcare and how AI is changing all aspects of the healthcare industry.

This book covers nanomaterials in tissue engineering for regenerative therapies of heart, skin, eye, skeletal muscle, and the nervous system.

The best healthcare organizations have developed effective approaches to develop compelling strategic visions and strategies based on long-term thinking and continue to apply Lean principles across their organizations to create a culture of continuous improvement.

Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood.

Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run largely by volunteers and community organisations.

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa.

One of the latest developments being pursued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations (ILO, ISO), in relation to preventing work-related diseases and disorders, concerns the creation of "e;toolkits"e; and, within them, of simple tools.

This edited collection of articles addresses aspects of medical care in which human error is associated with unanticipated adverse outcomes.

This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them.

This text is based on the practical experience of pilot schemes which have identified a variety of opportunities and innovative ideas which others can adopt and develop.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection of computational intelligence, health informatics, and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD).

Presenting the most up-to-date and authoritative reference on the risks and risk-prevention strategies of blood transfusions, Blood Safety and Surveillance compiles a breadth of information on the reactions, immunological complications, and potential for disease transmission related to blood transfusions in a broad context.

Problem Solving with the Private Sector presents advice and solutions for fruitful government-business alliances from the perspective of everyday public management.

Despite the pressure for local councils to follow the lead of the private sector and develop shared service and partnership arrangements, the barriers in terms of culture, differences in priorities across councils and lack of experience are formidable - yet this is the most likely source of meeting government targets for reduced overheads and improved organizational effectiveness.

Local Government is an area where management skills are tested to the extreme.

Effective sourcing in the public sector is a collaborative and strategic process that does not end when the contract or purchase order is executed.

Human enhancement (HE) is considered one of the most profoundly impactful effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In this book David and Alex Bennet propose a new model for organizations that enables them to react more quickly and fluidly to today's fast-changing, dynamic business environment: the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS).

In recent years, there has been steady increase in the interest shown in both big data analytics and the use of information technology (IT) solutions to improve healthcare services.

The biggest issue of economics in a hospital are the resource issues.

While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management.

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services.

Information Security in Healthcare is an essential guide for implementing a comprehensive information security management program in the modern healthcare environment.

This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector, Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement, stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods, materials, and services, but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination.

Based on the authors' experiences of working with a wide variety of retail pharmacies, this book is designed to provide pharmacists with a clear understanding of the nature of marketing, and the ways it can contribute to the effective management of their business.

John Glaser has been an astute observer and recognized leader in the health care industry for over thirty years.

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment.