Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 13 Issue 4

Rethinking public health: new training for new times

Jim Connelly, T. Knight, Catherine Cunningham, Maria Duggan, J. McClenahan

The new public health agenda will require major changes in the way health authorities, local authorities, Trusts and Primary Care Groups organise and manage their activities. The…

Taking the lead in fundholding

Christopher J. Cowton, Julie E. Drake

The prevalence of rather negative, or at best mixed, attitudes of doctors towards participation in management has been reported in several previous research studies. This paper…

An exploratory study of bed management

Ruth Boaden, Nathan Proudlove, Melanie Wilson

This paper analyses the role of bed managers and the processes involved in admission, stay, transfer and discharge of patients in the hospital setting. The paper seeks to begin a…

Microcomputer‐based workforce scheduling for hospital porters

C.K.Y. Lin

This paper focuses on labour scheduling for hospital porters who are the major workforce providing routine cleansing of wards, transportation and messenger services. Generating an…

Organisational barriers and ethnicity in the Scottish NHS

James Sheffield, Asifa Hussain, Paul Coleshill

The NHS faces a crisis in terms of staffing and recruitment. Many of the ethnic minority GPs in inner city areas throughout the UK are coming up to retirement age, and there is an…