Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 3 Issue 4

Audit and performance indicators: A case study in ophthalmology

Harold Schnieden, Michèle Grimes

The use of performance indicators to develop a case for resources is illustrated. Factors which may lead to ophthalmology becoming a possible problem service for managers are…

Teaching health economics in medical schools: A suitable case for treatment?

Michael F. Drummond

Doctors are important allocators of resources in the National Health Service, through the treatment decisions they make on behalf of their patients. However, they receive…

The need for medical audit

Brian Moores

To say that ‘quality’ has become a fashionable word in the British National Health Service would be something of an understatement. It would be fatuous to claim that those in the…

INTERVIEW Julia Cumberlege

Journal of Management in Medicine: As a regional chairman, do you still have a role with the National Association of Health Authorities (NAHA)?

Contracting for neonatal intensive care services

Stuart Welling FCAA

South East Thames Regional Health Authority (SETRHA), in conjunction with the Brighton Health Authority, have negotiated a prospective contract for the provision of NICU services…

NHS provision for terminal care: One district's deliberations

Martyn Partridge

In 1987 the Department of Health asked all UK District Health Authorities (DHAs) to review their provision for the terminally ill. This paper describes the deliberations of one…

Case mix management

B. Canning, J.I. Loeb

The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne is currently introducing case mix management under the auspices of the Department of Health's Resource Management Initiative. Like many…

Staffing the Service

C.V. Hartley

Ever since Enoch Powell, then Health Minister, secured Cabinet approval for the Hospital Plan in the early 1960s, it has been clear that expensive items like hospitals cannot be…

The US health care environment and the prospects for the pharmaceutical industry

Theodore Cooper, Lawrence C. Hoff

The authors contend that health care remains a high priority in the United States, despite a number of policy efforts to restructure the country's health care system. The authors…