How does the operation of PHARMAC's 'Community Exceptional ...

At this point, I stopped using NVivo 8 because I found that the software could
only report on the frequency of word usage and could not describe meaning or
identify the diversity of the themes from the data sources which I had collected.
This stage of the thematic analysis called for a critical appraisal of how to
organise the categories in relation to the thesis question. These functions were
simply beyond the capability of NVivo 8.
I read the categories again many times with the thesis question as the primary
focus. By this stage, I was extremely familiar with the research material. I
noted areas where the 74 categories related from my knowledge of the
research data, the subject literature and my thesis question.
I further analysed the categories by condensing, defining and refining them. I
wrote a summary of what each category was about by determining what aspect
of the question it captured. This was not simply a paraphrase of the categories
but a description of what interested me about the category and why.
The categories were divided into five subject areas which related to my thesis
question:
1. Subject areas which relate to PHARMAC’s operation as a meso-level
rationer (PHARMAC’s role).
2. Subject areas which relate to PHARMAC’s operation as a micro-level
rationer (Community Exceptional Circumstances).
3. Subject areas which relate to PHARMAC’s moral and ethical position.
4. Subject areas which relate to PHARMAC’s reputation for stakeholder
engagement.
5. Subject areas which do not relate to any of the above subject areas.
Table 4 demonstrates the number of categories which related to each of the
subject areas.
105