Name: Providing Quality in the Public Sector von Lucy Gaster
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Providing Quality in the Public Sector Zusammenfassung

Providing Quality in the Public Sector Lucy Gaster

This book argues that if public services are to be 'reformed' or `improved', achieving the best possible quality of service is essential.

It starts from the premise that citizens and users are the key `stakeholders'. They need to be consulted and involved at every stage. Within inevitable resource constraints, it is their needs, balanced with those of society, which must be met. Service providers need to change their culture and behaviour to make this happen.

This book presents a straightforward and comprehensive model for understanding quality and putting it into practice. Existing quality philosophies and approaches are examined. Overviews of recent policy on quality in central and local government, in the health service, and in public service partnerships are included. Finally, five practitioners present practical `vignettes' of citizen involvement, local partnerships, and quality improvement in health, housing and local government.

Providing Quality in the Public Sector is essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of public policy, local government, health, housing and the voluntary sector.

Über Lucy Gaster

Lucy Gaster retired from the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, and she is now an Honarary Senior Research Fellow there. She has had years of experience as a local government officer and 'community activist'.

Amanda Squires is a Clinical Governance Review Manager at the Commission for Health Improvement. She trained as a Chartered Physiotherapist working in South London in the highly interdisciplinary/multi-agency area of rehabilitation of older people. She has held health authority and academic quality improvement posts.

John Crawley, Michael Greenwood, Tessa Harding, Carol Hayden and Pat Scrutton contribute a chapter each to the book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Setting the scene
1.Introduction
2.The Public Policy context

Part II:The Theory
3.The conceptual framework:stakeholders, values, objectives and definitions.
4.Implementing quality
5.Standards, monitoring and evaluation

Part III: Learning from each other - overviews
6.Quality in central government
7.Quality in local government
8.Quality in health
9.Quality issues in partnership working

Part IV: Quality in Practice
10.Quality from the citizen's perspective:campaigning, consultation and involvement
11.Partnership and Participation:better government for older people in South Lanarkshire
12.Making it work in health: a stakeholder model for quality management
13.Making it work in housing:choice and need in social housing
14. making it work in local government: experiences of Tameside MBC

Part V: Conclusions

15. Conclusions and Reflections
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003005023

ISBN 13

9780335209552

ISBN 10

0335209556

Titel

Providing Quality in the Public Sector Lucy Gaster

Autor

Lucy Gaster

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Open University Press

Datum

2003-03-01

Anzahl der Seiten

304

Preise

N/A

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