TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Resource Management Initiative (RMI) is a central ingredient in
plans to instil market‐based relationships in health care and medicine.
However, these plans have not benefited from any adequate assessment of
“resource management”. Demonstrates how earlier experience with resource
management provides little guidance as to how it might be made to work.
While resource management implies that measures of cost and activity
were to be related to each other, its purposes are confused and
confusing. While seemingly offering a variety of advantages, resource
management is characterized by struggles and negotiations over its
operational substance. Moreover, the initiative failed to resolve
crucial issues over how to account for activities. Experience of
tackling these issues as market‐based relationships came into effect
during 1992‐3 demonstrates that resource management provides limited
assistance to managers of the service.
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SN  - 0951-3574
DO  - 10.1108/09513579410050416
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09513579410050416
AU  - Rea David M.
PY  - 1994
Y1  - 1994/01/01
TI  - Better Informed Judgements:Resource Management in the NHS
T2  - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 86
EP  - 110
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -