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

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• AGED CARE
  
  McCarthy, Jennifer and Friedman, Leonard H, The Significance of Autonomy in the Nursing Home Administrator Profession: A Qualitative Study, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 31(1) January-March 2006 pp. 55-63 (Constrained autonomy contributes to job dissatisfaction in the nursing home administration profession. Autonomy contributes to increased satisfaction and may lower administrator turnover.)
  
  
• DECISION MAKING
  
  Charan, Ram, Conquering a Culture of Indecision, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 84(1) January 2006 pp. 108, 110-117 (How organisations that routinely refrain from acting on their CEOs’ decisions can break free from institutionalised indecision. First published 2001.)
  
  Rogers, Paul and Blenko, Marcia, Who has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organisational Performance, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 84(1) January 2006 pp. 53-61
  
  
• DENTAL SERVICES
  
  Richards, Wayne and Evans, Linda, From Rhetoric to Reality: PPI in General Dental Practice, British Journal of Health Care Management, Vol. 12(2) February 2006 pp. 50-54 (The application of public and patient involvement in dentistry.)
  
  
• HEALTH CARE
  
  Morgan, Steven G, McMahon, Megan, Mitton, Craig and others, Centralised Drug Review Processes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Health Affairs, Vol. 25(2) March/April 2006 pp. 337-347 (Well-designed processes can help policymakers make tough, evidence-based decisions.)
  
  Schoen, Cathy, Osborn, Robin, Huynh, Phuong Trang and others, Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients with Health Problems in Six Countries, Health Affairs, Vol. 24(Suppl. 3) 2005 pp. w509-w525 (published online 6 December 2005)
  
  Wood, David and Zhang, Sarah, Characteristics of Chinese Healthcare Facilities, World Hospitals and Health Services, Vol. 41(4) 2005 pp. 10-16
   
  
• HEALTH FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN
  
  Eagle, Amy, Family Affair: Pediatric Bed Tower Makes Room for Parents Too, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 18(8) August 2005 pp. 12-18 (Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian.)
  
  The HD/MARU Forum – Information for Health Design – What Should the Future Hold?
  Part One, HD Hospital Development, Vol. 37(1) January 2006 pp.12-16 (HD and MARU assembled a multi-disciplinary group of industry experts to assess what is needed from current health buildings guidance.)
  Part Two ‘Guiding Lights’ HD Hospital Development, Vol. 37(2) February 2006 pp. 16-19, 34 (Part two looks at the issue of what form guidance for planning healthcare buildings should take.)
  
  Nestor, Constance, Critical Conditions, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 18(8) August 2005 pp. 25-29 (A real-world look at features and technologies for the ICU.)
  
  Pitts, Francis M and Hamilton, D Kirk, Therapeutic Environments: The Increasingly Documented Connection between Design and Care, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 18(9) September 2005 pp. 39-42
  
  Wiser, Steve, Golden Rules, Health Facilities Management, Vol. 18(9) September 2005 pp. 33-37 (Ten tips to avoid common pitfalls in health care construction.)
  
  
• HUMAN RESOURCES
  
  Fottler, Myron D, Erickson, Eric and Rivers, Patrick A, Bringing Human Resources to the Table: Utilisation of a Balanced Scorecard at Mayo Clinic, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 31(1) January-March 2006 pp. 64-72
  
  Khatri, N, Building HR Capability in Health Care Organisations, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 31(1) January-March 2006 pp. 45-54
  
  
• MANAGEMENT
  
  Brockner, Joel, Why it’s so Hard to be Fair, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 84(3) March 2006 pp, 122-129 (Employees who believe their company treats them fairly - listens to them, consults with them on important decisions and manages them with respect – respond in ways that bolster the bottom line. Then why do few executives manage to behave fairly, even though most want to?)
  
  Groves, Kevin S, View From the Top: CEO Perspectives on Executive Development and Succession Planning Practices in Healthcare Organisations, Journal of Health Administration Education, Vol. 23(1) Winter 2006 pp. 93-110
  
  Morison, Robert, Erickson, Tamara and Dychtwald, Ken, Managing Middlescence, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 84(3) March 2006 pp. 78 (New research shows that midcareer workers are the most disaffected people in your company. They are going to be a big problem if you continue to neglect them.)
  
  Kaplan, Robert S and Norton, David P, How to Implement a New Strategy Without Disrupting Your Organisation, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 84(3) March 2006 pp. 100-109 (Don’t restructure every time you change your strategy. It’s far better to settle on a structure that works without major conflicts, then use the tools of the balanced scorecard to align that structure to your strategy.)
  
  
• PATIENT SAFETY
  
  Leonard, Michael and Frankel, Allan, Make Safety a Priority. Create and Maintain a Culture of Patient Safety, Healthcare Executive, Vol. 21(2) March/April 2006 pp. 12-14, 16-18, 
  
  Sherman, Joyce, Patient Safety: Engaging Medical Staff towards a Common Goal, Healthcare Executive, Vol. 21(2) March/April 2006 pp. 20-23
  

WEBSITE REPORTS

• Appleby, John and Harrison, Anthony, Spending on Health Care: How Much is Enough? King’s Fund, 2006 (Concludes that the government must be clear about the value of the benefits expected from spending on the health service before it commits to future investment.)
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• Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice, Social Justice Report 2005, February 2006 (Looks at progress in achieving improvements in the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and sets out a human rights framework for achieving health equality within a generation.)
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• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Public Health Expenditure Report 2001 - 02 to 2003 – 04, (Health and welfare expenditure series no. 26) March 2006 
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• Australian Medical Association, AMA Position Statement: Workplace Facilities and Accommodation for Hospital Doctors, 2006
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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Remediation and Infection Control Considerations for Reopening Healthcare Facilities Closed due to Extensive Water and Wind Damage. Fact sheet, 2005
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• Dr Foster Intelligence, Keeping People out of Hospital: The Challenge of Reducing Emergency Admissions, February 2006
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• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Policy Brief: Health Technology Assessment. An Introduction to Objectives, Role of Evidence and Structure in Europe, 2005
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• European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, Improving the mental health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the European Union, (Green Paper), 2005 
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• Fonkych, Kateryna and Taylor, Roger, The State and Pattern of Health Information Technology Adoption, Rand Health, 2005
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• Global Forum for Health Research, No Development without Research: A Challenge for Research Capacity Strengthening, August 2005
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• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations, Surge Hospitals: Providing Safe Care in Emergencies, 2006
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• McInnes, Colin, Health and Foreign Policy in the UK: The Experience since 1997, Nuffield Trust, 2005
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• NHS and King’s Fund, Improving the Patient Experience - Celebrating Achievement: Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme, January 2006
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• NSW Health, Costs of Care Standards 2005/06, November 2005 (These Standards provide details of the approach to estimating standard costs of admitted and selected non-admitted services in acute public hospitals. It contains relativities of costs (or cost weights) as well as average costs of the major types of health service product classifications available.)
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• NSW Health, Environmental Planning and Assessment Act - Part 3A - What It Means for NSW Health, March 2006 (The new Department of Planning approval process for all health infrastructure projects with a capital investment value greater than $15M.)
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• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Economics Department, 
  Projecting OECD Health and Long-term Care Expenditures: What are the Main Drivers? Working Papers no. 477, 2006 (Public spending on health and long-term care in OECD countries will double by 2050, if present trends continue, reaching an average level equivalent to nearly 13% of GDP compared with 6.7% today. Even if governments manage to contain rising costs, spending would still amount to the equivalent of around 10% of GDP by the middle of the century.)
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• Queensland Health, Queensland Health Code of Conduct, Updated March 2006 (Queensland Health has developed a new Code of Conduct to reflect the core values of the new Queensland Health – caring for people, leadership, respect, integrity and public service.)
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• Rand Health, Charles Meade, Planning the Safety of Healthcare Structures, Working paper, October 2005 (After hurricane Katrina, decision making and strategies to make hospitals more resilient to natural disasters and hospital building codes will be reviewed. Should special provisions be made for hospitals?)
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• UK Department of Health, Best Research for Best Health – A New National Health Research Strategy, January 2006
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