Leadership collaboration during health reform: an action learning approach with an interagency group of executives in Tasmania

Abstract

Getting the participants together was challenging, which may reflect the reality of time-poor executives, or a low commitment to giving time to structured and deliberative informal dialogue. Further work is required to test this thesis and the action learning approach with other parts of healthcare workforce.

Nurse practitioner integration: Qualitative experiences of the change management process

“…Increasing costs, maintenance of service provision and changing societal needs all contribute to the need for change. Although reform of health care to improve efficiency and equity is a praiseworthy undertaking by government bodies, caution is required to ensure that true reform agendas are delivered in areas where adversarial organisational contexts are likely to resist change (Harpur, ).…”

“…The challenges facing policy makers include engagement of all stakeholders to effectively build the structural frameworks necessary for reform. Knowledge of the barriers responsible for constraint of prior reforms, understanding of stakeholder priorities and awareness of conflicts of interest must be identified early (Harpur, ). The political decision‐making process as described by Jansen, van Oers, Kok, and de Vries () is an attempt to accommodate various stakeholder groups through bargaining, lobbying and negotiating, with the final decisions a result of compromise.…”

Co‐development of implementation strategies to assist staff of a mental health community managed organisation provide preventive care for health behaviours

“…Observation notes were captured during this component, and key These concepts, assessed using an evaluation tool adapted from a co-production self-assessment framework by Public Health Services Tasmania, 39 are detailed in previous frameworks and research. 40 Participants were asked to provide a rating level on a three-point scale for each of the four co-development principles (definitions were provided; see Supplementary) based on how well they perceived the workshop addressed each principle, and given the option…”