Introducing innovation in a management development programme for a Primary Care Trust
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The National Health Service (NHS) is the largest employer in the UK and since the late 1990s has gone through a period of unprecedented change in a wide range of areas from introduction of the NHS plan (Department of Health, 2000) designed to help the NHS meet the needs of patients and improve health outcomes; to the establishment of NHS Foundation Trusts in 2004 which have financial freedoms and are independently regulated. Recent developments have focused on improving quality (Department of Health, 2009) with the establishment of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and a drive for NHS organisations to become more cost effective through promoting innovation and improvement. This paper provides insight into this agenda through the introduction of innovation as part of a management development programme at a Primary Care Trust (PCT).
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