“This edition comes highly commended by me, it’s an excellent reference and companion to developing the experience and expertise necessary to function in today’s healthcare environment.” 

Lord Victor O Adebowale MA CBE, Chair NHS Confederation, Leadership Coach, Executive Chairman, Visionable 

“A welcome update, given the even more acute challenges we face in healthcare and policy since the last edition, with new and timely chapters, edited by two of the leading groups in healthcare management and policy.” 

Professor John Øvretveit, Medical Management Center, Karolinska Medical University, Sweden

This internationally renowned book is written by leading experts in the field and covers all the key aspects of healthcare management. Written with healthcare managers, professionals and students in mind, it provides an accessible and evidence-based guide to healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. Key areas covered include: 

• Structure and delivery of healthcare services in the global context, including mental health, acute care, primary care, chronic disease, adult social care and integrated care 
• Allocating resources for healthcare: healthcare finances, the economics of healthcare and managing priorities 
• Healthcare workforce 
• Research and innovation 
• Climate change and sustainability 
• Global health policy: governing health systems across borders 
• Service user perspectives, experiences and involvements in healthcare 
• Equality, diversity and inclusion 
• Measuring and managing health care performance 

This fourth edition has been significantly rewritten, with two new editors, several new contributors and a revised chapter structure designed to better support learning, practical application and further study. In addition, there is a strengthened international focus, and each chapter includes new case studies giving global examples of health systems and services, new and updated learning activities to encourage application to your own organisation, and a range of links to useful online resources. 

Healthcare Management is essential research-based and applied reading for students, teachers and healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making. 

Simon Moralee is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Healthcare Management and Head of the Health Management Group at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK. 

Manbinder Sidhu is Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre and Co-Director of the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre, the University of Birmingham, UK. 

Judith Smith is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, the University of Birmingham, UK and Director of Health Services Research, Birmingham Health Partners, UK. 

Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.