‘Creating NHS Local’: The Relationship between English Local Government and the National Health Service

This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities such as gender. This paper draws on research conducted with doctors and nurses in the British National Health Service to reveal the ambiguities which exist in the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to these discourses. The discourses of work and organization are constantly mediated through, and destabilised by, the intertextuality that exists with competing discourses such as those of professionalism, gender, home and performance. Although organizational discourses are clearly powerful in the construction and performance of subjectivities, the interplay between discourses means that these are constantly destabilised and undermined.

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Looking forward to the next 70 years: from a National Ill-Health Service to a National Health System

Health Economics Policy and Law ◽

10.1017/s1744133118000099 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 11-14

Author(s):

David J. Hunter

Keyword(s):

National Health Service ◽

Local Government ◽

Health Service ◽

Health System ◽

21St Century ◽

National Health ◽

National Health System ◽

Well Being ◽

Tipping Point ◽

Health And Well Being

AbstractAmidst the NHS’s (National Health Service) success lies its major weakness, although one that Klein overlooks in his reflections on the NHS as it approaches 70. The focus on, and investment in, curing ill-health has been at the expense of attending to the public’s overall health and well-being. This preoccupation poses a greater threat to the NHS’s future than privatisation. Despite the weakness having been diagnosed decades ago, redressing the imbalance has proved stubbornly hard to achieve. Rhetoric has not been translated into reality. Yet, we may be on the cusp of a tipping point where in order to ensure a sustainable NHS, and one that is capable of meeting the 21st century challenges facing it, there is a renewed and overdue interest in promoting health and well-being in communities. But for this to succeed, the NHS will need to embrace its bete noire, local government.

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The relationship between academic training and National Health Service practice

BDJ ◽

10.1038/sj.bdj.4802573 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 129 (6) ◽

pp. 288-293

Author(s):

A H Rowe ◽

R Stubley ◽

T C White ◽

C E Wilde

Keyword(s):

National Health Service ◽

Health Service ◽

National Health ◽

Academic Training ◽

The Relationship

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The pharmaceutical industry and psychiatric research – a marriage for richer …?

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.29.3.88 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 88-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David J. Nutt

Keyword(s):

National Health Service ◽

Pharmaceutical Industry ◽

Health Service ◽

National Health ◽

Evidence Based Practice ◽

Psychiatric Research ◽

Evidence Based ◽

The Relationship ◽

Recent Government

It is timely to review the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry, given the continuing move towards more evidence-based practice in medicine, as well as two recent government initiatives to improve the value of research in the National Health Service (NHS), especially research that is commercially driven.

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