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Upsetting the apple cart whilst pulling it along the road: implementing the national service framework for mental health
- Authors:
- PECK Edward, GROVE Bob, HOWELL Valerie
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 8(2), April 2000, pp.36-44.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article argues that the traditional approach to translating national policy into local practice, based as it is on a metaphor of organisations as machines, will not lead to effective implementation of the national service framework for mental health. Rather, the paper contends that there is need for a broader range of metaphors of organisation to be deployed in the creation of robust implementation process and suggests three-negotiated order, chaos theory and learning theory - that the authors have found of particular value.