Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 4 Issue 4
Table of contents
Public health and the White Paper
Public health in its modern sense estab‐lished itself during the end of the last century. A legitimate conclusion from a study of the last hundred years or so is that the…
Use of Variable Costs in Laboratory Management
R. Gama, P.G. Nightingale, P.M.G. BroughtonThe use and limitations of variable costs in predicting the financial effects of changing workloads in clinical chemistry are illustrated and discussed. The study identified the…
Cost‐Benefit Appraisal of Screening for Congenital Dislocation of the Hip
W. George Kernohan, Bernadette P. Trainor, Raynold A.B. Mollan, Charles E.M. NormandVibration arthrometry is a new non‐invasive technique which detects, records and analyses vibrations elicited during clinical examination of human joints. In congenital…
ECHSS: 10 Years On
Lars Berg, Bo J.A. Haglund, Colin SandersonThe European Collaborative Health Services Studies (ECHSS) form a programme of related projects involving collaboration between research workers and health care staff in different…
Use of IT to Improve Care and Save Resources: Why Present Proposals are Worrying, and Why the UK is Losing Ground
F.T. de DombalImprovements in the quality of care are com‐patible with resource saving — but to achieve these desirable aims, doctors' performance must change. More attention should be paid to…
The Introduction of Capital Charges in the NHS
Sheila MastersThe first part of this paper outlines the reasons for introducing capital charges in the National Health Service (the NHS) in England and the aims and objectives of the scheme…
Management of the NHS Estate
Richard NugentThe National Health Service estate in England comprises about 50,000 acres of (mainly freehold) land on which stand about 2,000 hospitals and numerous other buildings. The value…
Providing Excellent Patient Care with Resource Management
David MathewA broad consensus seems to have emerged over the last five to ten years about the processes that characterise organisations that have performed well in the rapidly changing 1980s…
Management for Consultants
S.D. Horsley, D.H. Vaughan, C. Hessett, D.E. AllenA survey of National Health Service hospital consultants in the North Western Region of the UK showed the management activities that they undertook and what management training…
Medical Negligence 2
Diana M.R. Tribe, Gillian J.A. KorgaonkarThe second paper in this series looks at how damages are awarded in medical negligence cases and suggests reasons why they have increased over recent years. It then goes on to…
Medical Negligence 3
Diana M.R. Tribe, Gillian J.A. KorgaonkarIn the last of this series of three articles a short analysis is made of the time limits within which medical negligence claims can be brought and the implications of this for…