Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism : A Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Intro -- Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 International Mobility and Learning in the UK National Health Service -- Supporting Career Mobility in Resource Constrained Environments: The UK NHS -- Objectives -- The MOVE Study: Methods -- Notes -- 2 Internationalisation and Placement Activity in the UK National Health Service -- Introduction -- The NHS Staff Survey -- Cadre -- Career Stage -- Results -- Sample Characteristics -- International Placements -- Placement Location -- Gender -- Nationality -- Career Stage -- Length of Stay -- Age Group and Length of Stay -- Multiple Placement Experience -- Summary -- 3 What Do Health Workers Learn on International Placements? -- Introduction -- Continuing Professional Development in the National Health Service -- Knowledge Mobilisation through Professional Voluntarism -- Clinical Skills -- Leadership -- Learning from Failure -- Communication -- Cultural Awareness -- Teaching, Research and Presentational Skills -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 Managing Costs and Risks -- Background: the NHS in Fiscal Crisis? -- Professional Voluntarism and 'Brain Drain' -- Skills Wastage -- Exposure to Risk and Vicarious Liability -- Culture and 'Racial' Stereotyping -- Avoiding Risks through International Placements in High-Resource Settings? -- Summary -- Notes -- 5 Conclusions: Towards a Model for Sustainable Professional Volunteering -- Introduction: Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Brokers -- Mobility 'Metrics' and Equality Issues -- Length of Stay on International Placements -- Towards a Model for Sustainable Professional Volunteering -- Sustainable and Ethical Deployment -- Scenario 1: Partial Improvement (Positive Change) -- Scenario 2: Neutral Impact (No Change) -- Scenario 3: Negative Impact (Collateral Damage).

Volunteer Management -- Transparent and Equitable Recruitment Process -- Age and Seniority -- Volunteer 'Matching' -- Supervision, Risk and the Co-Presence Principle -- Building Relationships with Professional Volunteers: Induction through to Debriefing -- Risk Mitigation and Administrative Issues -- Notes -- Appendix 1 Data Collection and Methods -- Interviews -- Documentary Analysis -- Ethnographic and Observational Work -- Data from the Sustainable Volunteering Project (SVP) -- Ethical Approval -- Note -- Appendix 2 The Sustainable Volunteering Project -- Background and Objectives -- Volunteer Management and Support -- Selection -- Placement Logistics -- Placement Support -- Project Evaluation -- Volunteer Deployment in the SVP -- Appendix 3 The Move Survey -- References -- Index.

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