Healthcare systems around the world are struggling under intense pressure. Ageing populations, declining workforce, funding restraints and spending cuts have combined to produce a challenging environment to deliver a service that is fundamental to the lives of many. This book defines sustainable healthcare as an integrated system, where stakeholders work together to deliver high quality, safe patient care at the lowest possible cost and with a focus on outcomes that patients value.  Using this definition as a guide, this book brings together an extensive body of knowledge from an elite group of academics to consider how we can shape healthcare service delivery in a way that delivers sustainable value to society as a whole.

This edited collection will be of interest to academics working in healthcare management, healthcare innovation, the role of technology in healthcare, sustainable healthcare management, and healthcare in public policy. It will also be vital readingfor managers and professionals working in health and social care that are interested in research -based solutions to the challenges they face.

Chapter 1. Shaping Sustainable Healthcare: Meaningful Innovation and System Transformation (Nicola Burgess, Graeme Currie, Andy Hardy).- Part 1: Institutional Environment for sustainable healthcare.- Chapter 2. Integrated and networked healthcare systems: The Canadian example (Trish Reay).- Chapter 3. Partnership for improvement: How a leadership compact fostered relational change between five hospital chief executives and their regulator (Nicola Burgess).- Chapter 4. Micro-clinical cultures, group mindlines and evidence-based practice (Amy Grove).- Chapter 5. Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) for enhancing absorptive capacity (ACAP) in pursuit of sustainable healthcare (Charlotte Croft, Graeme Currie, Tina Kiefer).- Part 2: Intervention for sustainable healthcare delivery.- Chapter 6. How to develop inclusive, sustainable leadership in nursing? Clean the sticky floor! (Charlotte Croft, and Altricia Dawson).- Chapter7. The practices and processes of strategic leadership (Sarah Woolley & Graeme Currie).- Chapter 8. The role of staff managers in integrated care: variety and disparity as key resources to appeal clinical professionals (Giovanni Radaelli).- Chapter 9. Leadership for innovation in the English NHS: Insights from policy, academia and practice (Gary Kerridge, Dimitrios Spyridonidis and Penny Kechagioglou).- Chapter 10. Quantifying Financial Impact of Quality Improvement Programmes: Lessons and Limitations (Bernard Crump).- Chapter 11. The role of quality improvement in sustaining healthcare during crisis (Altricia Dawson, Nicola Burgess, Agnieszka Latuszynska).- Part 3: The service user perspective on sustainable healthcare.- Chapter 12. From evidence use to evidencing work: Towards a processual view of the role of evidence in commissioning policy-making (Davide Nicolini, Ila Bharatan, Emmanouil Gkeredakis, Rachel Manning, Jacky Swan).- Chapter13. Advances in Behavioural Science to Support Patient and Carer Self-Management (Isabel L. Ding, Fadi Makki and Ivo Vlaev).- Chapter 14. Values Alignment in Sustaining Health-Care Innovation Processes (Ila Bharatan, Katey Logan, Rachel Manning and Jacky Swan).- Chapter 15. Using big data science for sustainable healthcare: managing the interface of care homes and healthcare providers (Xu Han, Niam Yaraghi, Ram Gopal).