Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 9 Issue 5
Table of contents
Managerial objectives in the NHS
Howard Mellett, Neil MarriottDiscusses managerial objectives in the National Health Service andcompares service to patients with financial considerations. Reviews thegrowing influence of financial criteria…
Simulation of a hospital′s theatre suite
W.E. McAleer, J.A. Turner, D. Lismor, I.A. NaqviDescribes a study of six operating theatres in a modern hospitalwhere management was concerned about the throughput of the system.Senior medical staff were of the opinion that…
Where the reforms did not reach: doctors as front line managers
Roger Hadley, Don ForsterThe importance of the behavioural dimension of the management offront line teams in the health service has been neglected both in thetraining of doctors and in the recent reforms…
The Trent Regional Day Case Commission: An initiative to investigate the constraints to the extension of the use of day surgery
Nick Payne, Chris Knight, Cynthia MarvinIn 1989, Trent Regional Health Authority set up a Commission toenquire into the organization of day case surgery and encourage its use.Improved methods for measuring and comparing…
Managing capacity and demand in a resource constrained environment: lessons for the NHS?
Angus W. Laing, Cora ShiroyamaThe purchaser‐provider split within the NHS which emerged out ofthe government′s 1990 White Paper, Working for Patients,together with the introduction of the Patients Charter, has…
Physician supply and distribution in the USA
Rene P. McEldowney, Arnold BerryThe rising cost of US health care has precipitated some closeexamination as to the supply, distribution, and specialty choice of thephysician workforce. It is an issue of…