Organisational drivers of performance in mental health providers.

Purpose: This study aims to compare and contrast the core organisational processes across high and low performing mental health providers in the English National Health Service (NHS).

Design/methodology/approach: A multiple case study qualitative design incorporating a full sample of low and high performing mental health providers.

Findings: This study suggests that the organisational approaches used to govern and manage mental health providers are associated with their performance, and the study's findings give clues as to what areas might need attention.

IT and the Quality and Efficiency of Mental Health Care in a Time of COVID-19: Case Study of Mental Health Providers in England.

Background: In England, COVID-19 has significantly affected mental health care and tested the resilience of health care providers. In many areas, the increased use of IT has enabled traditional modes of service delivery to be supported or even replaced by remote forms of provision.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the use and impact of IT, in remote service provision, on the quality and efficiency of mental health care during the pandemic.

Impact of COVID-19 in mental health trusts.

Objective: To explore how mental health trusts in England adapted and responded to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of identifying lessons that can be learned during and beyond the pandemic.

Methods: Following a scoping study, we undertook 52 semi-structured interviews with senior managers, clinicians, patient representatives and commissioning staff across four case study sites. These sites varied in size, location and grading awarded by a national regulatory body.

Understanding culture and culture management in the English NHS: a comparison of professional and patient perspectives.

Rationale And Objectives: The growing interest in patient-focused health care in the National Health System (NHS), especially in the wake of high-profile failures in clinical practice, has underlined the need to involve patients in the design and evaluation of organizational change management programmes at the local level. This includes an evaluation of the relevance of culture and how culture might be assessed and managed in the delivery of high-quality and safe care. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the perspectives of health care professionals and patient representatives on purposeful attempts to manage culture change in the English NHS.

Urban sanitation and health in the developing world: reminiscing the nineteenth century industrial nations.

The dichotomy in development trajectories of urbanisation, industrialization and economic change, and the associated environmental health challenges, between the industrialised nations and the developing world, could offer useful lessons, especially for the latter. This paper examines points of convergence in the underlying factors and theories, underpinning urbanisation, sanitation and health in the 19th century industrialised nations and the developing world and explores the major reasons why many low income countries have not managed to redress their urban sanitation and health problems. It concludes that any meaningful developments in low income countries may require strategies, policies and actions, which emphasise local realities over and above global concerns and priorities.