Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
Approaches to the control of AIDS within the community
D. BaxterInfection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a public health threat whose significance in the UK has only been generally appreciated over the last 12–18 months. The…
Students' appraisal of community services: Some useful implications
A.Y. EllencweigA workshop on the evaluation of a controversial plan to integrate preventive and curative mother‐and‐child services in Jerusalem was conducted by the Hebrew University — Hadassah…
Resource management initiative
Ian MillsIn November 1986 the NHS Management Board announced the piloting, at six acute hospitals, of a new approach to resource management whose focus is on achieving, and demonstrating…
Re‐forming the NHS
Hugh C. ElwellThe progenitor of the UK National Health Service, Sir William Beveridge, took as one of his major assumptions — on which he based his proposals for the creation of an NHS — ‘that…
Are improvements in the quality of care incompatible with savings in resources?
F.T. de DombalThis presentation argues that improvements in the quality of care are perfectly compatible with resource saving — but, in order to achieve these desirable aims, doctors'…
A view of future needs for dental care
M.C. DownerThe epidemiology of dental disease in the United Kingdom has been well documented since the introduction in 1968 of the first of the various decennial national surveys of dental…
Cost information and decision‐making in the NHS
Malcolm ProwleIn recent years there has been an increasing emphasis in the UK National Health Service (NHS) on the provision of management information. This has been mainly manifested through…
Crown set‐off in insolvencies and health authority obligations
Christopher MorrisHealth authorities are among the major spenders of Government funds in Britain. At any given time any health authority (like any other large purchaser of goods and services) will…