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Welcome to this edition of the Health Planning & Management Library Bulletin. Listed below are a series of Journal Articles, New Books and Website Reports. 

Journal Articles

• AGED CARE
  
  Do Corporate Chains Affect Quality of Care in Nursing Homes? The Role of Corporate Standardisation
  Kamimura, Akiko and others, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 32(2) May-June 2007 pp. 168-178

• DISASTER PLANNING
  
  A Community-based Approach to Influenza Assessment and Treatment during a Pandemic
  Breen, Mark J, Stuart, Alison J and Graham, Phil, Healthcare Management Forum, Vol. 20(1) Spring 2007 pp. 6-9

• HEALTH CARE
  
  Real Options Reasoning in Healthcare: An Integrative Approach and Synopsis
  Williams, David R and Hammes, Paul H, Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 52(3) May/June 2007 pp. 170-187. Work by scholars in option pricing theory has evolved into an alternative perspective on capital strategic investments called ‘real options’.
  
  Transforming Medicare
  Gross, Paul, Hospital & Healthcare, May 2007 pp. 27-29. The Australian Health Care Agreements and Border Health Cover policies could be what’s needed to spur on positive reform.

• HEALTH FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN 
  
  The Future Hospital: The Politics of Change
  Farrington-Douglas, Joe with Brooks, Richard, Institute for Public Policy Research, May 2007. The focus of this report is on the politics and process of hospital change at a local level.
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  (need to complete free registration form to access report)
  
  Hospital as City
  Allison, David, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 20(6) June 2007 pp. 61-65. Employing urban design strategies for effective wayfinding.)
  
  Interiors
  Eagle, Amy, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 20(6) June 2007 pp. 31, 34, 36-38, 40-42, 44, 46-48. From common areas to patient rooms to amenities for families, hospitals employ distinctive designs.
  
  No ‘Hidden Patient’ website
  A ‘no hidden patient’ hospital design mandate for maximum patient safety. Designing hospitals so that nurses can easily see patients. 
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  Rebuilding the NHS: A New Generation of Healthcare Facilities
  UK Department of Health, June 2007. A £29bn investment in hospitals, health centres and equipment has played a major role in driving forward improvements in patient care. The UK Government is undertaking the largest hospital building program in the history of the NHS.
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  Sense and Sensibility
  Sanson, Andrew, HD Hospital Development, Vol. 38(3) March 2007 pp. 18-21. A high-secure women’s unit, Rampton Hospital, UK
  

• MANAGEMENT
  
  The Hierarchy of Work Pursuits of Public Health Managers
  Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Luft, Sabine, Bender, Wolfgang and others, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 20(2) May 2007 pp. 71-83. Public health managers put less emphasis on pursuits associated with structure, hierarchy and education and more on external relations and decision-making. The model of hospital clinician-managers’ managerial activities is applicable to public health managers while identifying differences in the way the two groups manage. The findings suggest that public health management is more managerialist than previously thought.
  
  Management Development: Study of Nurse Managerial Activities and Skills
  Lin, Li-Min, Wu, Jen-Her, Huang, Ing-Chung and others, Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 52(3) May/June 2007 pp. 156-169.
  
  The New Deal at the Top
  Dox, Yves L and Kosonen, Mikko, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 85(60 June 2007 pp, 98, 100-104. When a company changes its business models, its senior executives had better change the way they do business with one another.
  
  Surviving Your New CEO
  Coyne, Kevin P and Coyne, Edward J, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 85(5) May 2007 pp. 62, 63-69. 
  Everyone knows that CEO turnover at the top means upheaval, but new research shows just how bad are your chances of keeping your job.

• QUALITY
  
  Indigenous Health: Effective and Sustainable Health Services through Continuous Quality Improvement
  Bailie, Ross S, Si, Damin, O’Donoghue, Lyn and Dowden, Michelle, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 186(10) 21 May 2007 pp. 525-527.
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  Measuring Interventions to Promote Risk Management in Primary Care: The Experience in Warwickshire, England
  Wallace, Louise M and others, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 20(2) May 2007 pp. 84-93.
  
  Measuring Quality
  Willis, Cameron D, Evans, Susan M, Stoelwinder, Johannes U and Cameron, Peter A, Australian Health Review, Vol. 31(2) May 2007 pp. 276-281.

Website Reports

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2006 Report: Detailed Analyses
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, June 2007
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Australian Hospital Statistics 2005 – 2006
  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Hospital services series no. 30, May 2007 
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Analysis for Policy: Evidence-based Policy in Action
  Campbell, Siobhan and others, Government Social Research Unit, 2007
  PDF Click here to download
  
  
• Bullying – Prevention and Management of Workplace Bullying: Guidelines for NSW Health
  NSW Health Guideline GL2007_011, June 2007 
  PDF Click here to download
  
  
• Capacity Planning in Health Care: Reviewing the International Experience
  Ettelt, Stefanie and others, Euro Observer, Vol. 9(1) Spring, 2007
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• Caring for Our Health? A Report Card on the Australian Government’s Performance on Health Care. A Report by State and Territory Health Ministers
  June 2007. This report details where Canberra is spending taxpayers' money. It focuses on Medicare, general practitioners, specialists, medicines, public hospitals, private health insurance and explores health funding needs into the future. It examines whether recent changes in Australian Government policy are directing money where it is most needed. Most of the information is national - there may be some variations in different parts of Australia.
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• Design Guide for the Built Environment of Behavioural Health Facilities
  Sine, David M and Hunt, James M, National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems, 2nd ed., Spring 2007. The built environment for the general adult inpatient behavioural healthcare unit.
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• Electronic Personal Health Records: Emergence and Implications for the UK. A Report to the Nuffield Trust
  Pagliari, Claudia, Detmer, Don and Singleton, Peter, 2007 
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• Fall-related Hospitalisations among Older people: Sociocultural and Regional Aspects
  Bradley, Clare and Harrison, James E, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, May 2007
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Flexible Guidelines for the Design of Remote Indigenous Community Housing
  Fien, John, Charlesworth, Esther, Lee, Gini and others, Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute, Position paper no. 98, June 2007
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Future Directions for Health in NSW – Towards 2025
  NSW Health, 2007
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Hospital Financing and the Development and Adoption of New Technologies
  Centre for Health Economics, Research paper no. 26, April 2007 
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• Improving the Efficiency of Healthcare Spending: Selected Evidence on Hospital Performance
  Erlandsen, Espen, OECD Economics Department Working papers no. 555, June 2007 
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• A New Approach to Primary Care for Australia
  Doggett, Jennifer, Centre for Policy Development Occasional Paper no. 1, June 2007 
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• Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2007
  Productivity Commission, June 2007 
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Performance Reporting for Consumers: Issues for the Australian Private Hospitals Sector
  Sheahan, Margo, Little, Russ and Leggatt, Sandra G, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 2007 4:5 30 May 2007 
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• Readiness to Respond: Ambulance Service of NSW. Follow-up of 2001 Performance Audit
  NSW Audit Office, June 2007. The follow-up report commends the service for having "substantially implemented" 28 of the 29 recommendations put forward in 2001. But response times, which the NSW Department of Health acknowledged is the key performance indicator, have remained static.
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Replacing the Projected Retiring Baby Boomer Nursing Cohort 2001 – 2026
  Schofield, Deborah J, BMC Health Services Research, 7:87 16 June 2007 
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• Sick at Work: The Cost of Presenteeism to your Business, Employees and the Country
  Medibank Private, May 2007. A study commissioned by Medibank Private has found that presenteeism costs Australian businesses and the economy over $25 billion each year – much more than absenteeism 
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• State Health Plan – A New Direction for NSW Towards 2010
  NSW Health, February 2007
  Web Link - CLICK HERE
  
  
• Towards Enhancing National Capacity for Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Falls Management: A Role for a “Translation Task Group”?
  Poulos, Roslyn G and others, Australia and New Zealand Health policy, Vol. 4(6) 31 May 2007. A ‘Falls Translation Task Group’ was formed as a mechanism to improve the dissemination and uptake of falls research into policy and practice and to foster the development of policy-appropriate research.
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• 2006 Summary Report on Adult Health by Area Health Service from the New South Wales Population Health Survey
  Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Health, 2007 
  Web Link - CLICK HERE

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