Brings together health-care practitioners from the New Zealand health sector in order to provide a view of how the island nation's health care is managed. This book addresses topics, such as the management of information systems, the use waiting lists, the impact of hospital restructuring on nursing, and managing a rural community health trust.

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Information and the technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis is a core concern of government, making e-government (meaning electronically enabled government) fundamental to the ongoing 'reinvention' of public administration. This book looks at policies, problems and prospects for e-government in a series of case studies.