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dc.contributor.authorMillar, Ross
dc.contributor.authorFreeman, Tim
dc.contributor.authorMannion, Russell
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Huw Talfryn Oakley
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T09:30:37Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T09:30:37Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.identifier256010567
dc.identifier86221eac-fac8-4b82-af75-b1d14758cd81
dc.identifier85056180583
dc.identifier000472582100009
dc.identifier.citationMillar , R , Freeman , T , Mannion , R & Davies , H T O 2019 , ' Meta regulation meets deliberation : situating the governor within NHS foundation trust hospitals ' , Journal of Social Policy , vol. 48 , no. 3 , pp. 595-613 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279418000739en
dc.identifier.issn0047-2794
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2653-3695/work/57821526
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16087
dc.description.abstractNHS Foundation Trust (FT) Hospitals in England have complex internal governance arrangements. They may be considered to exhibit meta-regulatory characteristics to the extent that Governors are able to promote deliberative values and steer internal governance processes towards wider regulatory goals. Yet, while recent studies of NHS FT Hospital governance have explored the role and experience of FT Governors and examined FT hospital Boards to consider executive oversight, there is currently no detailed investigation of interactions between Governors and members of hospital Boards. Drawing on observational and interview data from four case-study sites, we trace interactions between the actors involved; explore their understandings of events; and consider the extent to which the benefits of meta-regulation were realised in practice. Findings show that while Governors provided both a conscience and contribution to internal and external governance arrangements, the meta regulatory role was largely symbolic and limited to compliance and legitimation of executive actions. Thus while the meta-regulatory ‘architecture’ for Governor involvement may be considered effective, the soft intelligence gleaned and operationalised may be obscured by ‘hard’ performance metrics which dominate processes and priority setting. Governors were involved in practices that symbolised deliberative involvement but resulted in further opportunities for legitimising executive decisions.
dc.format.extent19
dc.format.extent996023
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Social Policyen
dc.subjectHD28 Management. Industrial Managementen
dc.subjectRA Public aspects of medicineen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccHD28en
dc.subject.lccRAen
dc.titleMeta regulation meets deliberation : situating the governor within NHS foundation trust hospitalsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0047279418000739
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/25215en


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