Health Manpower Management: Volume 22 Issue 5
Table of contents
Are there alternatives to merger?
Mark Christopher HackettThe reconfiguration of the supply side of the National Health Service (NHS) has stimulated an extensive debate about the need to merge NHS Trusts to maintain viable organizations…
Managerialism and professionalism in general practice: teamwork and the art of “pulling together”
Mike Dent, Elizabeth BurtneyConsiders the impact of recent government policy on the organization of primary care in England and Wales. Discusses the notion and practice of “teamworking” currently in vogue…
Performance appraisal and women’s “performance” in a Trust hospital
G. CoatesReports that performance appraisal (PA) has become an important tool in “controlling” employees in modern public industries. Little work, however, has focused on its mediation or…
Teaching health economics to medical personnel from developing nations
John LloydOutlines the author’s experiences and the lessons learnt from work in the field of management training for doctors and other medical personnel. Explains the policy of using a dual…
Thinking beyond the box
Geoffrey C. LloydContends that as techniques to motivate, empower and reward staff become ever more sophisticated and expensive, one of the most obvious, though overlooked, ways of tapping the…
Simulation in hospitals
Tony ProctorHealth care costs continue to rise because increased demand for services and limited budgets put pressure on resources, however efficiently they may be used. Proposes discrete…