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Increasing Capacity for Innovation in Bureaucratic Primary Care Organizations: A Whole System Participatory Action Research Project

Paul Thomas, Juliet McDonnell, Janette McCulloch, Alison While, Nick Bosanquet and Ewan Ferlie
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2005, 3 (4) 312-317; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.309
Paul Thomas
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Juliet McDonnell
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Janette McCulloch
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vol. 3 no. 4 312-317
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.309
PubMed 
16046563

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication August 5, 2004
  • Revision received January 8, 2005
  • Accepted for publication January 18, 2005
  • Published online July 26, 2005.

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  1. Paul Thomas, FRCGP, MD1,
  2. Juliet McDonnell, MA2,
  3. Janette McCulloch, LLB, MSc3,
  4. Alison While, MSc, PhD, RGN, RHV4,
  5. Nick Bosanquet, BA, MSc5 and
  6. Ewan Ferlie, MA, MSc, PhD2
  1. 1Thames Valley University and Brent Primary Care Trust, London, UK
  2. 2School of Management, Royal Holloway College, University of London, London, UK
  3. 3Applied Research Unit, Brent Primary Care Trust, London, UK
  4. 4Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, Kings College London, London, UK
  5. 5Dept of Bioengineering. Imperial College, London, UK
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Paul Thomas, FRCGP, MD, Primary Care Research, Education and Development, Thames Valley University and Brent Primary Care Trust, Westel House, 32-38 Uxbridge Rd, Ealing, Rd London W5 2BS, paul.thomas{at}tvu.ac.uk
  1. A version of this report was presented at the Third International Conference: Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare, Said Business School, Oxford, England, March 2002; at the London Association of University Departments of General Practice, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, England, January 2002; at the Annual Conference of the West London Research Network 2002 (Keynote Speech), June 2003, at a workshop (focusing on the research methodology) at the North American Primary Care Research Group, October 2004. A booklet that summarized the work was posted on a Department of Health, Modernisation Agency Web site (http://www.natpact.nhs.uk/news/index.php?article_request=505).

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