Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 2 Issue 2
Table of contents
Resource management and clinical budgeting
John PerrinAll readers of this journal will know of the Griffiths Inquiry and its Report. The main concern of Griffiths was to change the ‘management style’ of the British National Health…
The inevitability of outcome management: How should QALYs be used?
Alan MynardDuring the last two or three years, economists in Britain have advocated the use of cost‐effectiveness criteria to determine National Health Service (NHS) allocation decisions…
Individual performance review: An appraisal
Nigel WebbIndividual performance review (IPR) and performance related pay (PRP) were formally introduced into the British National Health Service (NHS) by circulars PM(86)10 and PM(86)11 in…
Coping with fluctuations in obstetric flows: A case study
A.M. HoughtonThe opening of the new centralised obstetric unit in City and Hackney Health District in August 1986 was accompanied by an acute bed shortage. The planning of the unit had been…
DRGs: The European scene A general analysis
Jean Marie RodriguesA conference entitled ‘The Management and Financing of Hospital Services’ was held in London in December 1986. It was concerned with the implementation of a uniform patient…
Ethics and health care management
Donald EvansWhile it would be foolish to deny that morality is co‐extensive with the whole range of human activity, it is nevertheless true that some areas of that activity raise moral…
Abortion or child destruction? The case of C v S and the legal meaning of ‘born alive’
Paul MagrathThe case of C v S made legal history, in more ways than one. Less than a week passed between the opening of the plaintiff's case before the judge at first instance and the final…
Implementation of a district food and health policy
Peter TipladyA food and health policy was introduced at a comparatively early date in East Cumbria during 1982 and, in common with the experience of many other districts, there has been a…
Management and information in the English Hospital and Community Health Service
M.J. FaireyOver the last two or three years, there has been a considerable upsurge of interest in, and expenditure on, information in the English Hospital and Community Health Service…