Health Manpower Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

Building human resources capability in health care: a global analysis of best practice ‐ part I

Mohamed Zairi

This paper is one of a series of three, covering very comprehensively human resource practices in a global and generic context. The series of papers presents practices which are…

Europe supports UK Government in putting quality at the heart of health care

Sue Jackson

The new government drive for quality to be at the heart of health care is discussed, following which an insight into the membership and remit of the new European Health‐Care…

Integration into higher education: personal perceptions and reflections

Ruth Deery, Mari Phillips

Integration of midwifery and nurse education into higher education was completed in 1996. This article highlights issues which emerged prior to, during and post‐integration. It…

Developing postgraduate medical education for trusts: a secret to long‐term success

Mark Hackett, Harry Gee

The delivery of effective postgraduate education for doctors in trusts is becoming vital to secure the individual services of trusts. Increasingly, training requirements are…

Human resource management in the health‐care industry

Galen Conant, Brian H. Kleiner

It has been said that managing change is a synonym for managing people through change. No other industry has experienced more change in the past ten years than the health‐care…

Protecting the whistleblower: preventing retaliation following a report of patient abuse in health‐care institutions

Kevin Burkin, Brian H. Kleiner

Health‐care providers throughout the USA face litigation and the threat of litigation on a daily basis due to claims of patient abuse. Hidden within the costs associated with…