Decentring Health and Care Networks: Reshaping the Organization and Delivery of Healthcare

Networks have become a prominent template for public service governance. Often seen as an alternative to hierarchies and contracts, networks cross institutionalized organizational or sectoral boundaries to promote collaboration and the sharing of resources when addressing complex problems. Nowhere is this more the case than in the field of health services modernization and improvement.

Comprising unique empirical contributions, drawn primarily from the experience of the UK National Health S...