Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 11 Issue 1

Seven women GPs’ perceptions of their stresses and the impact of these on their private and professional lives

Sybil Myerson

Explores the stresses of seven women GPs and the impact of these on their work and home life. It is a qualitative study which uses a free flowing interview approach. The aim is to…

Acute coronary artery deficiency treatment process: Managing scarce resources and maintaining a level of service with the help of computer simulation

Tony Proctor

Surgical treatment can be planned well in advance or arrive in a near emergency. If careful control is not exercised there is always the possibility that patients may suffer as a…

Promoting clinically effective practice: Attitudes of fundholding general practitioners to the role of commissioning

Hannah‐Rose Douglas, Charlotte Humphrey, Margaret Lloyd, Keith Prescott, Andy Haines, Joe Rosenthal, Ian Watt

Aims to evaluate the acceptability of commissioning to improve clinical effectiveness in secondary care and explore the conditions under which fundholders would be willing to use…

Managing informed purchasing: A survey of decision makers

Paul Miller

As part of an ongoing study developing and evaluating the use of programme budgeting (PB) and marginal analysis (MA) within purchasing organizations, conducts a survey of a health…

Beyond the market in public service

Ann James

Critiques of the implementation of a market in health care have so far concentrated on conceptual, practical and ethical objections. it is not a real market, say the theorists; it…