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Table 5 Forms and intensity of professional tensions in healthcare organisations

From: Governance tensions in the healthcare sector: a contrasting case study in France

Intensity of tensions

Private for-profit healthcare organisation

Public not-for-profit healthcare organisation

Strong

Tensions on professional standards (between technical and relational dimensions of work)

Tensions on professional practices (between management instrumentation and care functions)

Moderate

-Tensions on professional values (between care values and financial values)

-Tensions on professional practices (between management instrumentation and care functions)

Tensions on professional values (between care values and financial values)