Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 10 Issue 6
Table of contents
Incorporating psychometric measures in selecting and developing surgeons
J. Herman Gilligan, Tom Treasure, Colin WattsProvides a review of the recent literature on the selection and development of surgical trainees and surgeons, and discusses findings on the validity of psychometric measures of…
Contracting for high‐tech health care for patients at home: a survey of purchaser responses
Mark Pilling, Tom WalleyPoints out that the Department of Health’s Executive Letter: EL(95)5 moved the finance of high technology treatment provided at home for chronically ill patients from the NHS…
Health‐care professionals and management development
John Loan‐ClarkeDiscusses the impact of a self‐governing hospital trust’s accredited management development programme designed for health‐care professionals responsible for managing natural…
Barriers to complaints: a survey of mental health service users
Silvia Sbaraini, John CarpenterReports on a survey of 222 mental health service users in two health service trusts, which provides evidence to support and elaborate Wood’s analysis of barriers to effective…
Decisions, decisions
Pamela ChrispinDescribes changes in the organization of the NHS towards a trust‐based system and explains that these changes have devolved decision making downwards. Points to the importance of…
Management of queues in out‐patient departments: the use of computer simulation
Limor Aharonson‐Daniel, Ray J. Paul, Anthony J. HedleyNotes that patients attending public outpatient departments in Hong Kong spend a long time waiting for a short consultation, that clinics are congested and that both staff and…
Health for All and British health policy: a comment on the quest for “healthy public policy”
Timothy MilewaExplains that Health for All is an international extra‐governmental movement that seeks to pursue equity in access to health‐related resources by broadening the scope of health…