Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 10 Issue 6

Incorporating psychometric measures in selecting and developing surgeons

J. Herman Gilligan, Tom Treasure, Colin Watts

Provides 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 Walley

Points 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‐Clarke

Discusses 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 Carpenter

Reports 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 Chrispin

Describes 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. Hedley

Notes 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 Milewa

Explains 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…