Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 7 Issue 2

The Effects of Policy Change on Family Doctors: Stress in General Practice under the New Contract

Sybil Myerson

Investigates the effects of policy change‐the Government NewContract (1990) – on the workload and lives of family doctors,using an open‐ended interview approach and numerical…

Continuing Medical Education and Its Management

Felix Vartanian

Discusses the importance of continuing medical education (CME) as akey means of improving the effectiveness of health care. Notes that CMEmust be integral to the health system and…

Medical Audit: The Views of Junior Doctors

N.A. Black, E.M. Thompson

Reports exploratory research into the reasons why many juniordoctors are critical of medical audit; the extent to which consultantsare aware of juniors′ views; and what might be…

Professional Autonomy in the Medical Field

J.A. Kennerley

Professionals subscribe to a given set of shared core values whichdefine their profession. In medicine they relate to the saving of lifeand healing of the sick. Autonomy is…

An Initial Evaluation of Effective Health Care Bulletins as Instruments of Effective Dissemination

S.L. Ibbotson, A.F. Long, T.A. Sheldon, J. Mason

Reports a postal survey of 175 senior district health authoritymanagers to determine the extent to which the Effective Health Care(EHC) bulletin No. 1 has effectively disseminated…

Decentralization and Primary Health Care in Developing Countries: Ten Key Questions

Charles Collins, Andrew Green

Decentralization is an important element in the policy formulationand implementation of Primary Health Care (PHC) in developing countries.While this may well be the case, certain…

Managing the Fundholding Practice: Who Does What?

John Newton, Michelle Fraser, Dave Wainwright, John Robinson

Reports a study of fundholding in general practice in the NorthernRegion and notes that although fundholding may have changed the role ofpractice managers and some general…