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Changes In Healthcare

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There are continual pressures on healthcare costs coupled with growing needs for healthcare services, linked with limited resources and evidence of poor performance which affect national and local healthcare organisations (Medicine 2013; Porter and Lee 2013; Publishing and Oecd 2002). Public demand for increased quality coupled with the increased need to do more with less has led healthcare organisation management teams to re-evaluate their operations strategy (Ballé and Regnier 2007). These days, healthcare settings such as hospitals operate under a barrage of improvement programs as a result, often adding to the pressure of operations rather than dealing with problems in the existing systems (Fillingham 2007). It is clear that healthcare organisations are complex dynamic systems that focus on improving quality of care and meeting stringent guidelines.

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