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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 8d

Webinar: The role of management in leading and supporting innovation and improvement |
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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 17d

AI in the NHS 2025 |
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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 18d

Two Shropshire health trusts to have shared leadership

It is hoped it will improve care for patients and offer greater value for taxpayers.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted to have a chapter in this new book about Dr Kathleen Lynn and the other great, innovative female doctors during the first decades of St Ultan’s hospital for sick infants. #speirgorm #irishhistory #history

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 24d

OBHC pre-conference workshop for PhD students and Early Career Researchers; Tuesday 7 April; Oxford. Save the date - details forthcoming via: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 24d

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 - call for papers (full & development) & for symposia/panels. Deadlines for submission 10 November 2025. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 24d

OBHC pre-conference workshop for PhD students and Early Career Researchers; Tuesday 7 April; Oxford. Save the date - details forthcoming via: www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · 24d

Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026 - call for papers (full & development) & for symposia/panels. Deadlines for submission 10 November 2025. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ...

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Sep 11

UK's first 'super-university' to be created as two merge from 2026 - BBC News

Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

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Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Medical reterritorialisation: the spatial interests of healthcare, financialisation and hospitals in a city-region: Regional Studies: Vol 59 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This paper examines hospital-led city-regionalism and its role in transforming territorial orders within China’s institutional framework. Focusing on the corporatisation of the former Suqian People...

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Hospital attraction measures in times of physician shortages: An analysis of job advertisements

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Schnack et al. "Hospital attraction measures in times of physician shortages: An analysis of job advertisements." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rising demand for physicians has led to increased competition among German hospitals, driving them to offer various measures to attract physicians. However, a comprehensive examination of these att...

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 21

New book! Exworthy, M., Ferguson, J., Waring, J. & Zurynski, Y (eds) (2025) Organising the health care workforce: strategic responses to the challenges and dilemmas faced by health and care services. Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Organising the Health Care Workforce

This book explores the organisational challenges of addressing the health and care workforce crisis, with an interdisciplinary approach

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 18

The hidden work in health care: unpaid overtime in the NHS |
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · Aug 11

How can changes to NHS incentives help deliver the 10 Year Health Plan?

🩺Join us at the IfG to explore what the 10 Year Health Plan will look like and what major changes the government seeks to realise for a better performance

👇Register:
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Harnessing the Capacity of Nurse Practitioners to Increase Access to Primary Care in Disadvantaged Communities | Milbank Memorial Fund

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you passionate about shaping policy to improve workforce health and reduce inequalities?

We're looking for a Senior Fellow to lead a high-impact programme of work focused on employment, welfare and health.

Find out more and apply by 23.00 on 25 August ⬇️

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Senior Fellow
Permanent contract
Salary: £81,869 per annum plus excellent benefits
Application deadline: 25 August 2025, 23.00

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 7

Harnessing the Capacity of Nurse Practitioners to Increase Access to Primary Care in Disadvantaged Communities www.milbank.org/2025/08/harn...

The number of nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States quadrupled from 91,000 in 2007 to 431,000 in 2024. But does this remarkable growth result in improved access to primary care where it is ne...

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · Aug 5

‘A third of GP appts June were carried out either over the phone or online
Up from 30.9% in June 2024, & 28.3% in June 2023’

But TOTAL appts
‘25 30.5m
‘24 28.1m
‘23 29.3m

Face to Face increasing
‘25 19.3m in 21d = 919k/day
‘24 18.3m in 20d = 915k/day
‘23 20.1m in 22d = 914k/day

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Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dazed and confused? Policy ideas behind the 10-Year Health Plan |
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Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times: The Role of Multi‐Level Governance, Hybrid Governance, and Negotiated Societal Intelligence

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 4

Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times: The Role of Multi‐Level Governance, Hybrid Governance, and Negotiated Societal Intelligence - Torfing - Public Administration - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulen...

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The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) @shocobhc.bsky.social · Aug 1

British Academy: apply for Postdoctoral Fellowships (deadline 1 Oct): www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Postdoctoral Fellowships

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