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A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures (2016)
Journal Article
Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2016). A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures. Journal of Nursing Management, 25(2), 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12425

Aim(s): A discussion paper on the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) market reforms. Background: NHS market reforms reliance on management science methods introduced a fundamental shift in measuring care for commissioning purposes rath... Read More about A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms following institutional National Health Service failures.

Delegation and supervision of health care assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertain and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses (2016)
Journal Article
Allan, H., Magnusson, C., Evans, K., Ball, E., Westwood, S., Curtis, K., …Johnson, M. (2016). Delegation and supervision of health care assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertain and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses. Nursing Inquiry, 23(4), 377-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12155

The invisibility of nursing work has been discussed in the international literature but not in relation to learning clinical skills. Evans and Guile’s (2012) theory of recontextualisation is used to explore the ways in which invisible or unplanned an... Read More about Delegation and supervision of health care assistants’ work in the daily management of uncertain and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses.

NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement (2016)
Journal Article
Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2016). NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement. British Journal of Community Nursing, 21(7), 356-358. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2016.21.7.356

Governments over the past three decades have undermined the founding principles of the NHS through reforms and market liberalisation. With greater involvement of commercial interests in health care, the NHS will become less democratic and transparent... Read More about NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement.

EU referendum debate : is the NHS finally up for sale? [Comment] (2016)
Journal Article
Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2016). EU referendum debate : is the NHS finally up for sale? [Comment]. Nursing Management, 17(3),

As the EU referendum looms on 23 June, policy experts discuss the impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the health service.