Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 7 Issue 1

Improving Health and Social Care in Mental Illness Services: A Survey of Health Service Managers in One Region of the UK

Peter Huxley

National directives in the UK aim to enhance community provisionfor mentally ill people. One of these initiatives, the Care ProgrammeApproach (CPA) requires health and social…

How to Choose a Usable System for General Practice

Catherine J. Bakewell

Explores the issue of choosing a computer system for generalpractice and provides a set of guidelines for effectively accomplishingthis daunting task. The author notes that to be…

Reducing the Cost of Post‐operative Deep Venous Thrombosis

M.A. McNally, R.A.B. Mollan, M.J. Buxton

Concern has been expressed that the introduction of a non‐invasivetest as a further step in the diagnostic pathway for deep venousthrombosis (DVT) can only increase the expense of…

How to Increase Market Orientation

Virginia Hayden

Distinguishes between consumers and customers, shows how these twogroups′ requirements of a particular service often differ; proposes thatservices within health care need to be…

The Strategic Restructuring of US Hospitals

Peng S. Chan

The US health care industry has experienced dramatic economic,social and technological changes since the late 1970s. These changeshave reshaped the structure and function of…

Choice of GP: Fact or Fiction

Mark Gabbott, Gillian Hogg

The White Paper, Working for Patients, and the 1990 GPContract are designed to promote competition between generalpractitioners and to encourage greater choice for consumers of…

Difficult Choices in Health Care

Adrian R. Bull

Considers the two issues of the range of health care services andbalances within the range. Notes the necessity of conducting a nationaldebate concerning the range and limits of…