Medical regulation, spectacular transparency and the blame business.
Medical regulation, spectacular transparency and the blame business.
复制标题
医疗监管、惊人的透明度和指责业务。
DOI:
10.1108/14777261011088683
复制
发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
McGivern G
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
McGivern G
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore general practitioners' (GPs') and psychiatrists' views and experiences of transparent forms of medical regulation in practice, as well as those of medical regulators and those representing patients and professionals.Design/methodology/approach–The research included interviews with GPs, psychiatrists and others involved in medical regulation, representing patients and professionals. A qualitative narrative analysis of the interviews was then conducted.Findings–Narratives suggest rising levels of complaints, legalisation and blame within the National Health Service (NHS). Three key themes emerge. First, doctors feel “guilty until proven innocent” within increasingly legalised regulatory systems and are consequently practising more defensively. Second, regulation is described as providing “spectacular transparency”, driven by political responses to high profile scandals rather than its effects in practice, which can be seen as a social defence. Finally, it is suggested that a “blame business” is driving this form of transparency, in which self‐interested regulators, the media, lawyers, and even some patient organisations are fuelling transparency in a wider culture of blame.Research limitations/implications–A relatively small number of people were interviewed, so further research testing the findings would be useful.Practical implications–Transparency has some perverse effects on doctors' practice.Social implications–Rising levels of blame has perverse consequences for patient care, as doctors are practicing more defensively as a result, as well as significant financial implications for NHS funding.Originality/value–Transparent forms of regulation are assumed to be beneficial and yet little research has examined its effects in practice. In this paper we highlight a number of perverse effects of transparency in practice.
登录
查看更多内容
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2009
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
G. McGivern;Andreas Lambrianou;E. Ferlie;M. Cowie
通讯作者:
M. Cowie
影响因子:
1.1
作者:
G. Teasdale
通讯作者:
G. Teasdale
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2005
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Carol A. Heimer;JuLeigh Petty;R. Culyba
通讯作者:
R. Culyba
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
Social Science & Medicine (1967)
影响因子:
--
作者:
Maria Blomgren;Eva
通讯作者:
Eva
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2006
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
O. O’neill
通讯作者:
O. O’neill