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Stephen Timmon

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ID247393
NAMEStephen Timmon
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMETimmon
SIGNATURETIMMON S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nottingham
ORCID0000-0002-3731-1350
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS103
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6
  • A Qualitative Evaluation Exploring Co‐Production of Falls Management in Care Homes

    Open Access•Fran Hallam‐Bowles, Alice Kilby et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2025

    BACKGROUND: Co-production approaches are increasingly used in research but are rarely evaluated in care home settings. This study explored factors influencing key principles of co-production in a series of workshops around falls management in care homes. METHODS: Stakeholders (care home residents and relatives, care home staff, and health and social care staff) participating in co-production workshops as part of a research study were invited to t…

  • The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place-Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings

    Open Access•Lara Bianchi, Mihaela Kelemen et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 35

    This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings. Drawing on empirical data…

  • The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) in UK healthcare: Dichotomies in a new ‘multi-professional’ profession

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Claire Mann et al.•ARTICLE•SSM - Qualitative Research in…•2023

    Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) work in a wide range of settings across the English National Health Service. ACPs come from a wide range of health professional backgrounds. This paper explores the ACP as a multi-professional role, and the implications of these understandings for the sociology of professions. This paper analyses what happens when a new occupational role is created that encompasses several established professions. This quali…

  • We Just Don’t Know Where They Are”: The Geographical Distribution of Exercise Classes for Older People, Including Those Living with Dementia in the East Midlands

    Open Access•Annabelle Long, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    Older people living with dementia are advised to exercise to remain independent. Although several exercise classes for older people take place across the UK, there is limited information about the geographical distribution of these classes. This study identified the location and explored the population characteristics of the classes in a UK region, to aid improved access to exercise. Using a geographical information system, data were collected on…

  • Migrant NHS nurses as 'tolerated' citizens in post-Brexit Britain

    Open Access•G Spiliopoulos, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 29

    With this article we present European Union (EU) and non-EU nurses' lived experiences of feeling 'unwelcomed' and 'unsettled' in a heightened xenophobic environment, in the workplace and elsewhere, following the 2016 EU Referendum. Brexit has exposed long-standing structural inequalities which oppress and disempower the NHS migrant labour force. Migrant nurses, a highly mobile and skilled workforce, were feeling increasingly disenfranchised and i…

  • Exploring the influence of health management processes on health outcomes among internally displaced persons (IDPs)

    Open Access•Winifred Ekezie, Penelope Siebert et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Migration and Health•2022•References: 3

    The health of IDPs in camp-like settings was compromised by uncoordinated management, treatment, and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Government authorities need to be aware and consider the complexity of the multiagency involvement in the management and provision of IDP healthcare services. Introducing systems to streamline, monitor and support IDP healthcare management could be cost-effective strategies for achieving optim…

  • A technical solution to a professional problem: The risk management functions of prognosticators in the context of prognostication post-cardiac arrest

    Open Access•Sarah Elizabeth Field‐Richards, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Sociology•2022•References: 4

    Cardiac arrest (CA) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Two-thirds of deaths among patients admitted to intensive care units following out-of-hospital CA are due to neurological injury, with most as a consequence of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, following prognostication of unfavorable neurological outcome. Given the ramifications of prognosis for patient outcome, post-cardiac arrest (P-CA) guidelines stress the importa…

  • Action request episodes in trauma team interactions in Japan and the UK - A multimodal analysis of joint actions in medical simulation

    Open Access•Kazuo Tsuchiya, Frank Coffey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 9

  • Knowledge sharing to support long‐term condition self‐management—Patient and health‐care professional perspectives

    Open Access•Sarah Brand, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2021

    BACKGROUND: Increased self-management is a suggested solution to the burden on health-care services of long-term conditions (LTCs). This requires effective sharing of knowledge between health-care professionals and patients, and is an underexplored area. OBJECTIVE: To understand how patients and health-care professionals (HCPs) share and utilize knowledge in the social context of health-care interactions within long-term condition management. MET…

  • Factors Affecting the Delivery and Acceptability of the Rowtate Telehealth Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention for Traumatic Injury Survivors: A Mixed-Methods Study

    Open Access•Jade Kettlewell, Rebecca Lindley et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Despite training and experience in intervention delivery, some barriers remained. Providing some face-to-face delivery where necessary may address certain barriers, but strategies are required to address other barriers

  • Patient Perspectives on Key Outcomes for Vocational Rehabilitation Interventions Following Traumatic Injury

    Open Access•Kay Bridger, Blerina Kellezi et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Returning to work after traumatic injury can have a range of benefits, but there is currently little research that incorporates patient perspectives to identify outcomes of vocational rehabilitation interventions that are important to survivors. Trauma survivors ( n = 17) participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups exploring outcomes that were important to them for recovery and return to work. Data were analysed using them…

  • Dodgy labour market dichotomy: The repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights

    Abdullah Zafar Sheikh, Atif Saleem Butt et al.•ARTICLE•Labor History•2021•References: 71

    The flexibility inherent in temporary agency work allows employers to cut labour cost in a variety of ways. Recurring themes in the employment literature draw attention to the duality of the labour market rooted in type-of-contract segmentation. This duality in the labour market carries with it a number of undesirable consequences. Drawing on qualitative data from six case studies in Pakistan, this paper reports on an in-depth study of deceitful …

  • E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Social Studies of Science•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    In this article, we examine some of the expectations, frictions and uncertainties involved with the assetization of de-identified NHS patient data by (primary care) research services in UK. Pledges to Electronic Health Record (EHR) data-driven research attempt to reconfigure public health data as an asset for realizing multiple values across healthcare, research and finance. We introduce the concept of 'asymmetrical divergence' in public health d…

  • Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service

    Open Access•Basharat Hussain, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cross…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This research studied an NHS organization as a case to explore how it is responding to cross-cultural issues against a backdrop of policy expectations about equitable and good quality mental health service provision to service users of a minority ethno-cultural group in the UK. Data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 participants from three hierarchical levels of the organization. The research found that the concepts …

  • The challenge of inclusive coproduction: The importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects

    Open Access•Jenelle Clarke, J Waring et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 31

    Previous studies highlight that coproduced research initiatives are influenced by how individuals interact together and that group inclusivity amongst diverse members is crucial. However, it is not fully understood how inclusivity is sustained over time, particularly through routine encounters. Our study examines how coproduction occurs through routine and ritualistic patterns of everyday practices, which have the potential to facilitate sustaina…

  • Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: Free Riding or Distributive Justice

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    We draw on findings from qualitative interviews with health data researchers, GPs and citizens who opted out from NHS England's care.data programme to explore controversies and negotiations around data sharing in the NHS. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from science and technology studies, we show that the new socio-technical, ethical and economic arrangements were resisted not only on the basis of individual autonomy and protection from expl…

  • Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in-patient falls: An Agential Realist Analysis

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism within science and technology studies to examine the fall and its prevention as a situated phenomenon of knowledge that is made and unmade through intra-actions between env…

  • Understanding the care.data conundrum: New information flows for economic growth

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2017

    The analysis of data from electronic health records aspires to facilitate healthcare efficiencies and biomedical innovation. There are also ethical, legal and social implications from the handling of sensitive patient information. The paper explores the concerns, expectations and implications of the National Health Service (NHS) England care.data programme: a national data sharing initiative of linked electronic health records for healthcare and …

  • Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Biobanks are vital for biospecimen production in research, despite the regulatory, recruitment and commercial difficulties they face. We conducted interviews with clinicians, researchers, volunteers who recruit biobank participants, regulators and NHS managers about the integration of a biobank into an NHS hospital. We show that medical waste collected for biomedical research acquires its socio-ethical and economic value from the level of integra…

  • Nurses in the Private Health Sector in Kerala: Any Lessons Learnt from Their Strikes in Recent Years

    Open Access•Sreelekha Nair, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Indian Journal of Gender Studies•2016•Cited by: 7

    This article analyses the series of strikes initiated by staff nurses in private hospitals in the state of Kerala. In spite of the growth of private sector health care institutions, working terms and conditions of nursing professionals are structured by a deeply iniquitous ethos. A number of strikes were organised that generated public interest and resulted in some potential long-term changes in the perspectives on health care professionals’ recr…

  • The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Catrin Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • Animals and Anomalies: An Analysis of the UK Veterinary Profession and the Relative Lack of State Reform

    Open Access•Pru Hobson-West, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of published literature and reports, this paper assesses whether wider social, political and ethical dynamics can better explain this intriguing anomaly. We conclud…

  • The development of the specialism of emergency medicine: Media and cultural influences

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Stuart Nairn•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 34

    In this article we analyse, via a critical review of the literature, the development of a relatively new medical specialism in the United Kingdom, that of emergency medicine. Despite the high media profile of emergency care, it is a low-status specialism within UK medicine. The creation of a specialist College in 2008 means that, symbolically, recognition as a full specialism has now been achieved. In this article, we will show, using a sociology…

  • Why do organisations implement automated external defibrillators

    Stephen Timmon, Stephen Timmons et al.•ARTICLE•Health Risk & Society•2014

    Automated external defibrillators are becoming ubiquitous in public space, with a wide variety of organisations adopting this technology as a way of dealing with the risk of cardiac arrest to staff or users of the organisation. In this article, we examine why organisations had purchased defibrillators. We explore how organisations perceive their responsibilities to staff and visitors in an emergency, and why organisations believe a defibrillator …

  • Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The Call for a New Professionalism

    Open Access•Fiona Moffatt, Paul Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Improving performance is an imperative for most healthcare systems in industrialised countries. This article considers one such system, the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Recent NHS reforms and strategies have advocated improved healthcare productivity as a fundamental objective of policy and professional work. This article explores the construction of productivity in contemporary NHS discourse, analysing it via the Foucauldian concept of go…

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  • A disputed occupational boundary: Operating theatre nurses and Operating Department Practitioners

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Judith Tanner•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2004•Cited by: 20•References: 25

    Traditionally, surgeons (and to a lesser extent anaesthetists) have been assisted primarily by nurses. This role has been threatened in recent years, in the UK NHS (and elsewhere), by a relatively new profession, that of the Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). The ODP profession is still in the process of establishing itself as a 'full' profession within UK health care. While occupational boundary disputes between professions are common in h…

  • A failed panopticon: Surveillance of nursing practice via new technology

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Stephen Timmons•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2003•Cited by: 12•References: 14

    New technology being introduced into nursing makes possible the surveillance of practice via an ‘electronic panopticon’. This paper reports on a qualitative study of these systems in the UK NHS, where the attempt to monitor nursing practice failed, not least due to the complexities of nursing culture and practice at ward level

  • The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Catrin Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The Call for a New Professionalism

    Open Access•Fiona Moffatt, Paul Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Improving performance is an imperative for most healthcare systems in industrialised countries. This article considers one such system, the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Recent NHS reforms and strategies have advocated improved healthcare productivity as a fundamental objective of policy and professional work. This article explores the construction of productivity in contemporary NHS discourse, analysing it via the Foucauldian concept of go…

  • E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Social Studies of Science•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    In this article, we examine some of the expectations, frictions and uncertainties involved with the assetization of de-identified NHS patient data by (primary care) research services in UK. Pledges to Electronic Health Record (EHR) data-driven research attempt to reconfigure public health data as an asset for realizing multiple values across healthcare, research and finance. We introduce the concept of 'asymmetrical divergence' in public health d…

  • Nurses in the Private Health Sector in Kerala: Any Lessons Learnt from Their Strikes in Recent Years

    Open Access•Sreelekha Nair, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Indian Journal of Gender Studies•2016•Cited by: 7

    This article analyses the series of strikes initiated by staff nurses in private hospitals in the state of Kerala. In spite of the growth of private sector health care institutions, working terms and conditions of nursing professionals are structured by a deeply iniquitous ethos. A number of strikes were organised that generated public interest and resulted in some potential long-term changes in the perspectives on health care professionals’ recr…

  • Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: Free Riding or Distributive Justice

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    We draw on findings from qualitative interviews with health data researchers, GPs and citizens who opted out from NHS England's care.data programme to explore controversies and negotiations around data sharing in the NHS. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from science and technology studies, we show that the new socio-technical, ethical and economic arrangements were resisted not only on the basis of individual autonomy and protection from expl…

  • Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Biobanks are vital for biospecimen production in research, despite the regulatory, recruitment and commercial difficulties they face. We conducted interviews with clinicians, researchers, volunteers who recruit biobank participants, regulators and NHS managers about the integration of a biobank into an NHS hospital. We show that medical waste collected for biomedical research acquires its socio-ethical and economic value from the level of integra…

  • Animals and Anomalies: An Analysis of the UK Veterinary Profession and the Relative Lack of State Reform

    Open Access•Pru Hobson-West, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of published literature and reports, this paper assesses whether wider social, political and ethical dynamics can better explain this intriguing anomaly. We conclud…

  • Uniforms, status and professional boundaries in hospital

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Linda East•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Despite their comparative neglect analytically, uniforms play a key role in the delineation of occupational boundaries and the formation of professional identity in healthcare. This paper analyses a change to the system of uniforms in one UK hospital, where management have required all professions (with the exception of doctors) to wear the same 'corporate' uniform. Focus groups were conducted with the professionals and patients. We analyse this …

  • Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service

    Open Access•Basharat Hussain, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cross…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This research studied an NHS organization as a case to explore how it is responding to cross-cultural issues against a backdrop of policy expectations about equitable and good quality mental health service provision to service users of a minority ethno-cultural group in the UK. Data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 participants from three hierarchical levels of the organization. The research found that the concepts …

  • The challenge of inclusive coproduction: The importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects

    Open Access•Jenelle Clarke, J Waring et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 31

    Previous studies highlight that coproduced research initiatives are influenced by how individuals interact together and that group inclusivity amongst diverse members is crucial. However, it is not fully understood how inclusivity is sustained over time, particularly through routine encounters. Our study examines how coproduction occurs through routine and ritualistic patterns of everyday practices, which have the potential to facilitate sustaina…

  • Displacement of death in public space by lay people using the automated external defibrillator

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Brian Crosbie et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 15

  • Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in-patient falls: An Agential Realist Analysis

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism within science and technology studies to examine the fall and its prevention as a situated phenomenon of knowledge that is made and unmade through intra-actions between env…

  • Professionalization and its discontents

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    The sociology of professions has generally considered professionalization as a desirable outcome for occupational groups. This case study of professionalization in the UK National Health Service, based on an analysis of documents, presents a challenge to that view. For many groups, the state is now so comprehensively dominant in the process of professionalization that it can effectively dictate professional status on its own terms. Many of the ad…

  • The Role of Boundary Spanning in Building Trust: A Place-Based Study on Engaging Hardly Reached Groups in Community Healthcare Settings

    Open Access•Lara Bianchi, Mihaela Kelemen et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 35

    This paper investigates the impact of boundary spanning activities on building trust as a means of tackling health inequalities in hardly reached communities. Lack of trust has been identified as a barrier to engagement with healthcare services, resulting in poorer health outcomes. Engaging with hardly reached communities is challenging due to the social and symbolic boundaries prevalent in community healthcare settings. Drawing on empirical data…

  • Migrant NHS nurses as 'tolerated' citizens in post-Brexit Britain

    Open Access•G Spiliopoulos, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 29

    With this article we present European Union (EU) and non-EU nurses' lived experiences of feeling 'unwelcomed' and 'unsettled' in a heightened xenophobic environment, in the workplace and elsewhere, following the 2016 EU Referendum. Brexit has exposed long-standing structural inequalities which oppress and disempower the NHS migrant labour force. Migrant nurses, a highly mobile and skilled workforce, were feeling increasingly disenfranchised and i…

  • Action request episodes in trauma team interactions in Japan and the UK - A multimodal analysis of joint actions in medical simulation

    Open Access•Kazuo Tsuchiya, Frank Coffey et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Pragmatics•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 9

  • The development of the specialism of emergency medicine: Media and cultural influences

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Stuart Nairn•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 34

    In this article we analyse, via a critical review of the literature, the development of a relatively new medical specialism in the United Kingdom, that of emergency medicine. Despite the high media profile of emergency care, it is a low-status specialism within UK medicine. The creation of a specialist College in 2008 means that, symbolically, recognition as a full specialism has now been achieved. In this article, we will show, using a sociology…

  • Scientific uncertainty and the creation of resuscitation guidelines

    Open Access•Stuart Nairn, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2010•Cited by: 1•References: 8

  • Impact of Different Measures of Comorbid Disease on Predicted Mortality of Intensive Care Unit Patients

    Joseph A Johnston, Douglas P Wagner et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2002•References: 15

    BACKGROUND: Valid comparison of patient survival across ICUs requires adjustment for burden of chronic illness. The optimal measure of comorbidity in this setting remains uncertain. OBJECTIVES: To examine the impact of different measures of comorbid disease on predicted mortality for ICU patients. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: Seventeen thousand eight hundred ninety-three veterans from 17 geographically diverse VA Medical Centers …

  • A failed panopticon: Surveillance of nursing practice via new technology

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Stephen Timmons•ARTICLE•New Technology Work and Employment•2003•Cited by: 12•References: 14

    New technology being introduced into nursing makes possible the surveillance of practice via an ‘electronic panopticon’. This paper reports on a qualitative study of these systems in the UK NHS, where the attempt to monitor nursing practice failed, not least due to the complexities of nursing culture and practice at ward level

  • A disputed occupational boundary: Operating theatre nurses and Operating Department Practitioners

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Judith Tanner•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2004•Cited by: 20•References: 25

    Traditionally, surgeons (and to a lesser extent anaesthetists) have been assisted primarily by nurses. This role has been threatened in recent years, in the UK NHS (and elsewhere), by a relatively new profession, that of the Operating Department Practitioner (ODP). The ODP profession is still in the process of establishing itself as a 'full' profession within UK health care. While occupational boundary disputes between professions are common in h…

  • Witchcraft and Rebellion in Late Seventeenth-Century Devon

    Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Journal of Early Modern History•2006

    The case of three women from Bideford, Devon, tried and executed for witchcraft in 1682, provides a unique glimpse into the interaction between popular culture, print media, and political parties of the Exclusion Crisis era. The judicial records of the case are fairly limited, contained only in missives from the Calendar State Papers Domestic, and the memoirs of the trial judge. Publishers in London, however, provided a much greater range of sour…

  • How do lay people come to trust the Automatic External Defibrillator

    Stephen Timmon, Stephen Timmons et al.•ARTICLE•Health Risk & Society•2008

    Defibrillators are now widely installed in a variety of public places for the immediate treatment of people who have collapsed with a suspected cardiac arrest. These initiatives are predicated on the defibrillator being used by 'lay' volunteers. This presents a problem of trust, as the volunteer rescuers need to trust an unfamiliar technology to diagnose and treat an immediately life-threatening condition they are unlikely to have encountered bef…

  • Displacement of death in public space by lay people using the automated external defibrillator

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Brian Crosbie et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 15

  • Scientific uncertainty and the creation of resuscitation guidelines

    Open Access•Stuart Nairn, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2010•Cited by: 1•References: 8

  • How do Religious People Navigate a Secular Organisation? Religious Nursing Students in the British National Health Service

    Stephen Timmon, Aru Narayanasamy•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•2011•References: 17

    Although the debate about secularisation has moved on to consider post-secular society, many organisations (especially in Europe) remain largely secular in outlook and can pose difficulties for those among their members who profess a strong religious faith. In this article, we consider how a group of people—in this case students of nursing—for whom their religious beliefs are an important feature in their lives navigate and make sense of a predom…

  • Professionalization and its discontents

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 34

    The sociology of professions has generally considered professionalization as a desirable outcome for occupational groups. This case study of professionalization in the UK National Health Service, based on an analysis of documents, presents a challenge to that view. For many groups, the state is now so comprehensively dominant in the process of professionalization that it can effectively dictate professional status on its own terms. Many of the ad…

  • Uniforms, status and professional boundaries in hospital

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Linda East•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 30

    Despite their comparative neglect analytically, uniforms play a key role in the delineation of occupational boundaries and the formation of professional identity in healthcare. This paper analyses a change to the system of uniforms in one UK hospital, where management have required all professions (with the exception of doctors) to wear the same 'corporate' uniform. Focus groups were conducted with the professionals and patients. We analyse this …

  • Why do organisations implement automated external defibrillators

    Stephen Timmon, Stephen Timmons et al.•ARTICLE•Health Risk & Society•2014

    Automated external defibrillators are becoming ubiquitous in public space, with a wide variety of organisations adopting this technology as a way of dealing with the risk of cardiac arrest to staff or users of the organisation. In this article, we examine why organisations had purchased defibrillators. We explore how organisations perceive their responsibilities to staff and visitors in an emergency, and why organisations believe a defibrillator …

  • Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The Call for a New Professionalism

    Open Access•Fiona Moffatt, Paul Martins et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 14

    Improving performance is an imperative for most healthcare systems in industrialised countries. This article considers one such system, the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Recent NHS reforms and strategies have advocated improved healthcare productivity as a fundamental objective of policy and professional work. This article explores the construction of productivity in contemporary NHS discourse, analysing it via the Foucauldian concept of go…

  • The development of the specialism of emergency medicine: Media and cultural influences

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Stuart Nairn•ARTICLE•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 34

    In this article we analyse, via a critical review of the literature, the development of a relatively new medical specialism in the United Kingdom, that of emergency medicine. Despite the high media profile of emergency care, it is a low-status specialism within UK medicine. The creation of a specialist College in 2008 means that, symbolically, recognition as a full specialism has now been achieved. In this article, we will show, using a sociology…

  • Nurses in the Private Health Sector in Kerala: Any Lessons Learnt from Their Strikes in Recent Years

    Open Access•Sreelekha Nair, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Indian Journal of Gender Studies•2016•Cited by: 7

    This article analyses the series of strikes initiated by staff nurses in private hospitals in the state of Kerala. In spite of the growth of private sector health care institutions, working terms and conditions of nursing professionals are structured by a deeply iniquitous ethos. A number of strikes were organised that generated public interest and resulted in some potential long-term changes in the perspectives on health care professionals’ recr…

  • The development of the nursing profession in a globalised context: A qualitative case study in Kerala, India

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Catrin Evans et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • Animals and Anomalies: An Analysis of the UK Veterinary Profession and the Relative Lack of State Reform

    Open Access•Pru Hobson-West, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    The sociology of professions literature would predict that the contemporary state would not allow groups to continue unregulated or unreformed. However, this is indeed the case with the UK veterinary profession, with legislation dating back to 1966. Using an interdisciplinary analysis of published literature and reports, this paper assesses whether wider social, political and ethical dynamics can better explain this intriguing anomaly. We conclud…

  • Understanding the care.data conundrum: New information flows for economic growth

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Big Data & Society•2017

    The analysis of data from electronic health records aspires to facilitate healthcare efficiencies and biomedical innovation. There are also ethical, legal and social implications from the handling of sensitive patient information. The paper explores the concerns, expectations and implications of the National Health Service (NHS) England care.data programme: a national data sharing initiative of linked electronic health records for healthcare and …

  • Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    Biobanks are vital for biospecimen production in research, despite the regulatory, recruitment and commercial difficulties they face. We conducted interviews with clinicians, researchers, volunteers who recruit biobank participants, regulators and NHS managers about the integration of a biobank into an NHS hospital. We show that medical waste collected for biomedical research acquires its socio-ethical and economic value from the level of integra…

  • The challenge of inclusive coproduction: The importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects

    Open Access•Jenelle Clarke, J Waring et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 31

    Previous studies highlight that coproduced research initiatives are influenced by how individuals interact together and that group inclusivity amongst diverse members is crucial. However, it is not fully understood how inclusivity is sustained over time, particularly through routine encounters. Our study examines how coproduction occurs through routine and ritualistic patterns of everyday practices, which have the potential to facilitate sustaina…

  • Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: Free Riding or Distributive Justice

    Open Access•Paraskevas Vezyridis, Stephen Timmon•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    We draw on findings from qualitative interviews with health data researchers, GPs and citizens who opted out from NHS England's care.data programme to explore controversies and negotiations around data sharing in the NHS. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from science and technology studies, we show that the new socio-technical, ethical and economic arrangements were resisted not only on the basis of individual autonomy and protection from expl…

  • Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in-patient falls: An Agential Realist Analysis

    Open Access•Stephen Timmon, Paraskevas Vezyridis et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism within science and technology studies to examine the fall and its prevention as a situated phenomenon of knowledge that is made and unmade through intra-actions between env…

  • Workforce diversity, diversity training and ethnic minorities: The case of the UK National Health Service

    Open Access•Basharat Hussain, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cross…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This research studied an NHS organization as a case to explore how it is responding to cross-cultural issues against a backdrop of policy expectations about equitable and good quality mental health service provision to service users of a minority ethno-cultural group in the UK. Data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 participants from three hierarchical levels of the organization. The research found that the concepts …

  • Knowledge sharing to support long‐term condition self‐management—Patient and health‐care professional perspectives

    Open Access•Sarah Brand, Stephen Timmon et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2021

    BACKGROUND: Increased self-management is a suggested solution to the burden on health-care services of long-term conditions (LTCs). This requires effective sharing of knowledge between health-care professionals and patients, and is an underexplored area. OBJECTIVE: To understand how patients and health-care professionals (HCPs) share and utilize knowledge in the social context of health-care interactions within long-term condition management. MET…

  • Factors Affecting the Delivery and Acceptability of the Rowtate Telehealth Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention for Traumatic Injury Survivors: A Mixed-Methods Study

    Open Access•Jade Kettlewell, Rebecca Lindley et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Despite training and experience in intervention delivery, some barriers remained. Providing some face-to-face delivery where necessary may address certain barriers, but strategies are required to address other barriers

  • Patient Perspectives on Key Outcomes for Vocational Rehabilitation Interventions Following Traumatic Injury

    Open Access•Kay Bridger, Blerina Kellezi et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Returning to work after traumatic injury can have a range of benefits, but there is currently little research that incorporates patient perspectives to identify outcomes of vocational rehabilitation interventions that are important to survivors. Trauma survivors ( n = 17) participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews or focus groups exploring outcomes that were important to them for recovery and return to work. Data were analysed using them…

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