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Title: Beyond professional boundaries: relationships and resources in health services' modernisation in England and Wales
Author(s): Huby, Guro
Harris, Fiona Margaret
Powell, Alison
Kielmann, Tara
Sheikh, Aziz
Williams, Sian
Pinnock, Hilary
Contact Email: fiona.harris@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Social capital
health service change
professional boundaries
Issue Date: Mar-2014
Date Deposited: 24-Mar-2014
Citation: Huby G, Harris FM, Powell A, Kielmann T, Sheikh A, Williams S & Pinnock H (2014) Beyond professional boundaries: relationships and resources in health services' modernisation in England and Wales. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36 (3), pp. 400-415. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12067
Abstract: This article draws on theories of social capital to understand ways in which the negotiation of professional boundaries among healthcare professionals relates to health services change. We compared reconfiguration of respiratory services in four primary care organisations (PCOs) in England and Wales. Service development was observed over 18 months during a period of market-based reforms. Serial interviews with key clinicians and managers from hospital trusts and PCOs followed progress as they collaborated around, negotiated and contested developments. We found that professionals work to protect and expand their claims to work territory. Remuneration and influence was a catalyst for development and was also necessary to establish professional boundaries that underpinned novel service arrangements. Conflict and contest was less of a threat to change than a lack of engagement in boundary work because this engagement produced relationships based on forming shifting professional allegiances across and along boundaries, and these relationships mediated the social capital needed to accomplish change. However, this process also (re)produced inequalities among professions and prevented some groups from participation in service change.
DOI Link: 10.1111/1467-9566.12067
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