NHS Organizational Culture Analysis

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The NHS organisational culture emphasise in order for a change to be implemented an understanding of how to improve patients experience and providing support for staff to deliver safety standard of services is necessary (Braithwaite 2010). This make the process of measuring change difficult, whereas the scale and extent of the change is important and endured the time frame, which might take many years for the changes to occur. Therefore, other consideration should be self- appraisal to recognise areas of weakness, as it is a good practice for cultural developments and reinforce performance. This will improve successful health and social care culture, but stability will be crucial for a longer term (Koneth et al. 2011).

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