Ambulance services : leadership and management perspectives /: leadership and management perspectives. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paresh Wankhade, Kevin Mackway-Jones, editors.
• Editors: Wankhade, Paresh; Mackway-Jones, Kevin
• Contents: Introduction: Understanding the Management of Ambulance Services / Paresh Wankhade and Kevin Mackway-Jones -- Historical Perspectives in the Ambulance Service / Alexander Pollock -- A Strategy for Managing Quality in Ambulance Services / Mary Peters, Steve Barnard, Michael Dorrian and Kevin Mackway-Jones -- Management of Emergency Demand / Bob Williams -- Ethical Commissioning of Emergency Ambulance Services / Mark Docherty -- Organisational and Professional Cultures: An Ambulance Perspective / Paresh Wankhade, James Radcliffe and Geoffrey Heath -- Leadership and System Thinking in the Modern Ambulance Service / Andy Newton and Graham Harris -- Ambulance Service Modernisation / Robert Till and Anthony Marsh -- Interoperability and Multiagency Cooperation / John Stephenson -- Responding to Diversity and Delivering Equality in Prehospital Care: Statutory Responsibilities, Best Practice and Recommendations / Viet-Hai Phung, Karen Windle and A. Niroshan Siriwardena -- Dealing with the Austerity Challenge / Robert Till and Anthony Marsh -- The Ambulance Service of the Future / Mark Docherty, Andrew Carson and Matthew Ward -- Future Perspectives for the UK Ambulance Services: Evolution Rather than Revolution / Kevin Mackway-Jones and Paresh Wankhade -- International Perspectives: Australian Ambulance Services in 2020 / Paul M Middleton -- International Perspectives: South African Ambulance Services in 2020 / Craig Vincent-Lambert -- International Perspectives: Finnish Ambulance Services in 2020 / Juha Jormakka and Simo Saikko -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 362.18/8068; Medicine; Ambulance service -- Management; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Public Health; Public Health - General; Health & Biological Sciences; Ambulances -- organization & administration -- Great Britain; Law -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Medical -- Allied Health Services -- Emergency Medical Services; Public administration; Accident & emergency medicine; Public administration; Emergency medicine; Medical -- Public Health; Public health & preventive medicine; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319186429; 3319186426; 3319186418; 9783319186412
• Related ISBNs: 9783319186412
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 23, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.