Title |
Improving accountability through alignment: the role of academic health science centres and networks in England
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-24 |
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Authors |
Pavel V Ovseiko, Axel Heitmueller, Pauline Allen, Stephen M Davies, Glenn Wells, Gary A Ford, Ara Darzi, Alastair M Buchan |
Abstract |
As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health science centres and networks in England to provide high-quality care, innovative research, and world-class education, while also supporting wealth creation and economic growth. Meeting these expectations increasingly depends on partnership working between university medical schools and teaching hospitals, as well as other healthcare providers. However, academic-clinical relationships in England are still characterised by the "unlinked partners" model, whereby universities and their partner teaching hospitals are neither fiscally nor structurally linked, creating bifurcating accountabilities to various government and public agencies. |
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United Kingdom | 12 | 63% |
Spain | 1 | 5% |
Belgium | 1 | 5% |
Canada | 1 | 5% |
Unknown | 4 | 21% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 11 | 58% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 7 | 37% |
Scientists | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 6 | 6% |
New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
Sweden | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 96 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 19 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 14% |
Student > Master | 15 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 5% |
Other | 20 | 19% |
Unknown | 23 | 22% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 18% |
Social Sciences | 15 | 14% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 13 | 13% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 10% |
Computer Science | 4 | 4% |
Other | 16 | 15% |
Unknown | 27 | 26% |