Decentring Health and Care Networks

Mark Bevir is Professor at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is also a Professor at the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University - MERIT, Maastricht, the Netherlands. He has published widely on public policy and governance. Justin Waring is Professor of Medical Sociology and Healthcare Organisation and Deputy Director of the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. His research deals with the changing organization and governance of public services, with a particular focus on the governance of healthcare professional work.

• Chapter 1: Decentring networks and networking in health and care services.- Chapter 2: The contested practice of networking in healthcare management.- Chapter 3: Analysing the micro implementation of health care reforms: a decentred approach.- Chapter 4. Buddies and Mergers: decentring the performance of healthcare provider partnerships.- Chapter 5. Space and place in network governance: putting integrated care into place.- Chapter 6: Situating practices of human and non-human networks in the delivery of emergency and urgent care services .- Chapter 7: Sharing stories or co-constructing practice? Challenges to undertaking and researching innovation using evidence from the English NHS.- Chapter 8: Networking for health, networking for wealth: A study of English health innovation policy in practice.- Chapter 9. Tensions between technocracy, scientific knowledge and co-production in collaborative health and care networks.- Chapter 10. Is co-production just really good PPI? Making sense ofpatient and public involvement and co-production networks.- Chapter 11: Professional Pastoral Work in a Kenyan Clinical Network: Transposing Transnational Evidence-based Governmentality.