Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 5 Issue 4

Where Are the Medical Managers?

Annabelle Mark

This article discusses the attempts by the National Health Service(NHS) to develop medical managers, following the introduction of generalmanagement in 1983. It suggests that…

Alternative Approaches to Health Care

Iain J. Smith

This article explores alternative medicine choices within thecontext of the purchaser/provider separation. The changes that drawattention to the desires of patients may require…

Involving Health Professionals in Management: A Transatlantic Comparison

Martin Farebrother, Jonathan Asbridge, Christine Miles, Linda Patterson

Initiatives for greater involvement of health care professionals,particularly consultants, in health care management in North America andthe United Kingdom are compared. Although…

A Cost‐Benefit Appraisal of Casting Materials in Trauma Management

Belinda Leathem, W. George Kernohan, Rab Mollan

Since earliest history, splintage materials have been used forimmobilisation of injuries, especially fractures. The use of gypsum inthis domain dates from the eleventh century and…

Problems of Prioritisation and Our Duty to Care

Adrian R. Bull

Limited resources must be invested wisely. Society′s humanitarianduty to care must be satisfied as well as the economic imperative to useresources rationally. This cannot properly…

Joint Management in Community Care

Gerald Wistow, Brian Hardy

Government ministers have stressed that inter‐agency co‐ordinationwill be crucial to the success of their community care proposals. Yetthe history of collaboration between health…

Health Systems Reform in Europe: The Romanian Experience

Tom Rathwell

Health care has not been immune to the political and social changestaking place across Central and Eastern Europe. The search for a newparadigm for health services has persuaded…

Managing Doctors

John Hindle

What does a doctor need to acquire before entering the field ofmanagement. This article begins to explore the capabilities andqualities associated with successful managers and…