Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health (CCGR)
The Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health is a research facility in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales with a successful track record of undertaking research and evaluation projects on health sector issues since 1991. Its core interest is to investigate issues of policy, governance and leadership in the health sector. It is involved in conducting original research into clinical governance issues, providing a scholarly capability by which to evaluate health sector policies, programs and projects, and contributing to undergraduate medical, postgraduate health services management, and public health and doctoral education.
To achieve these the Centre makes use of assembled expertise and collaborators, and builds on existing staff expertise through external collaborations within Australia and internationally, including with the Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW, the NSW Health Department, Clinical Excellence Commission, NSW, Australian Council on Healthcare Standards, Health Informatics Research and Evaluation Unit at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney and the World Health Organization.
CCGR News
May 2008
We need better led health services. Read Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite's recent analysis of this in the journal Leadership in Health Services with the intriguing title L(H) ≠ ∑(m1, m2 … mn).
March 2008
The OBHC2008 Conference was a resounding success, with some 80 delegates from Australasia, North America and Europe. See the details at www.obhc2008.org.
August 2007
July 2007
March 2007
Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare Conference
The 6th International Conference in Organisational Behaviour in Health Care is to be held in Sydney, Australia from 26-28 March, 2008. The theme is: Culture and climate: cracking the code. The chair is Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite of the University of New South Wales who is hosting the conference on behalf of the Society for the Study of Organising in Health Care. Please visit the website at www.obhc2008.org for more information.
December 2006
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| Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mary Westbrook, Don Hindle, Rick Iedema and Deborah Black's 2006 article in Health Services Management Research, 19(1):1-12, "Does restructuring hospitals result in greater efficiency? An empirical test using diachronic data" has won an Emerald Management Review's Citation of Excellence. It was selected as one of the fifty best articles published in management in 2006. |