Remodelling Hospitals and Health Professions in Europe

MIKE DENT is Professor of Health Care Organization at Staffordshire University. He has published widely on the sociology of professions relating to medicine and nursing and the health care organization and is particularly interested in the changing nature of professionalism and professional accountability as well as organizational analysis more generally.

List of Figures and Boxes Glossary of Foreign Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Reorganising Hospital Medicine and Nursing in Europe European Hospitals, Medicine, Nursing and Management The Netherlands and Sweden: Quality Control The United Kingdom and France: Etatiste Traditions Germany and Italy: Federalism and Regionalism Poland and Greece: Transition or Embeddedness? Conclusions: Figuring Out the State of Professionalisation within European Health Care Notes Bibliography Author Index Subject Index Author Index Subject Index