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The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks

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  • Waring, Justin
  • Roe, Bridget
  • Crompton, Amanda
  • Bishop, Simon

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The contemporary social organisation of medical work is characterised by internal hierarchies and stratification in the form of professional elites and managerial hybrids. This paper examines the changes in medical restratification brought about by the introduction of inter-organisational care networks. The study focuses in particular on the social position of doctors and the contingencies that enable or constrain intra-professional hierarchies across inter-organisational boundaries. This ethnographic study of major system change within the English healthcare system finds that a relatively small group of ‘multiplex’ elites have significant influence in both national policy-making and regional service re-configuration based upon multiple sources of clinical and reputational capital. Subsequent forms of restratification at the regional level are found to mirror such status markers whilst also revealing important local contingencies, especially where professional markers of distinction are coupled with and dependent upon organisational markers of distinction.

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  • Waring, Justin & Roe, Bridget & Crompton, Amanda & Bishop, Simon, 2020. "The contingencies of medical restratification across inter-organisational care networks," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 263(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:263:y:2020:i:c:s0277953620304962
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113277
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