A longitudinal study of change in the English National Health Service

Guven-Uslu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3935-8280 and Conrad, Lynne (2011) A longitudinal study of change in the English National Health Service. Financial Accountability and Management, 27 (4). pp. 385-408. ISSN 1468-0408

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Abstract

This paper reports the findings of a longitudinal comparative case study of three National Health Service (NHS) hospital Trusts in England, investigating the perceptions of clinical, managerial and accounting professionals towards changing cost accounting and performance measurement practices. It incorporates both qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and is based on a contextualist understanding of change management, utilising the content-process-context approach (Pettigrew and Lapsley, 1994) to investigate the influence of receptive versus non-receptive contexts on change. The analysis reveals limited success in improving performance measurement practices (the content of change) in Trusts. Nevertheless the specific context within which change was operationalised was found to be very important, with central mangers playing a key role in influencing change. The process of change indicated slow shifts in clinical-accountant-managerial relations, partly driven by changes in financial flows within the organisations.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Accounting & Quantitative Methods
Depositing User:	Pinar Guven-Uslu
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2011 09:50
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2022 10:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35259
DOI:	10.1111/j.1468-0408.2011.00530.x

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