Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 3 Issue 2

Illuminating performance with computer‐based statistical searchlights

M. Fairey

While Ministers of the UK Government are mounting a wide‐ranging review of the country's National Health Service and attention is increasingly focussing on ways of stretching…

Occupational stress among general practitioners

Cary L. Cooper, Peter Hingley

John Berger, in his well‐known book ‘A Fortunate Man’, drew an idealistic portrait of a country general practitioner whose high commitment to his vocation and a life of dedicated…

Managing primary health care in developing countries

David Schofield

The continuing challenge for health professionals engaged in international health activities is to encourage essential changes in policy and process in order to meet the…

Management of a pain relief service

Beverly‐Jane Collett

Chronic pain has important socio‐economic consequences. The reasons for the evolution of a distinct specialty to treat patients with intractable pain are discussed. The users of a…

Funding and delivery: Valuing the alternatives

Stephen Halpern

It is not possible to make a totally objective analysis of any health care system without assuming various values. These values, in turn, assume that the delivery of health care…

The privatisation of National Health Service pathology

A.H. Raby

The current political emphasis directing thinking in the British National Health Service towards an organisational climate in which competition is positively encouraged, is…

Marketing and the management of change

Elaine Farell

Two more unlikely bedfellows than marketing and the British National Health Service would have been difficult to find five years ago. Increasing demand, making a profit and…

Training for nurses: Arguments for change

Bob Purcell

The paper considers current costs of nurse training and dropout rates in the context of a contracting labour market and the need for a fundamental revision of strategy, as well as…

Hospital closure: The doctors' right to object: An analysis of the case of Regina v Tunbridge Wells Health Authority, Ex parte Goodridge and Others

Paul Magrath

In the case of Regina v Tunbridge Wells Health Authority, Ex parte Goodridge and Others, the 24 doctors comprising the General Practitioner Committee of the Tonbridge Cottage…