martin powell suggests that the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been announced so many times we are at risk of not noticing should it actually happen. he is right. if we ‘cry wolf’ too many times, we risk losing sight of what is important about the nhs and why.

NHS Choices has gone to town on the NHS Health Check project. New web pages aim to encourage people to use this “sophisticated check of your heart health.” Through blood pressure, cholesterol, and body mass index being “properly checked,” they say that strokes, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and some forms of dementia can “often be prevented.” Helping people to stop smoking, increasin...

Public service motivation (PSM), public values (PSV), and ethos (PSE), we argue, constitute theoretically complementary dimensions of psychology. Using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), also empirically map the three constructs to identify their interrelationships as constituent parts a topology. survey private employees, determined which PSM, PSV, PSE instruments most strongly correlate with (1...

Public organisations are normally overwhelmed with socio-technical challenges of Information Systems (IS) innovation at both organisational and institutional levels. However, most studies of these challenges adopt an organisational perspective, leaving the institutional perspective largely unanalysed. In this paper, the IS innovation challenges faced by a British local authority are analysed to...

Martin Powell suggests that the death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been announced so many times we are at risk of not noticing should it actually happen. He is right. If we ‘cry wolf’ too many times, we risk losing sight of what is important about the NHS and why.

A broad spectrum of public opinion has long portrayed the Internet as a harbinger liberal-democratic ethos-renewal. Recent empirical evidence, however, points to opposite, ethos-reversing effects. This paper theorizes how liberal polities condition ethos-renewing and cycles digital transformation. I advance number ideal-typical propositions on Internet-enabled ethos-renewal ethos-reversal, illu...