Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 8 Issue 2

Specifying Quality in Health Care

Adrian Bull

Quality should be a central issue in the commissioning and provision ofhealth care. This requires a systematic approach to defining andmonitoring quality. Such an approach should…

Knowledge into Practice: What′s the Problem?

Stephen Harrison

It is now widely accepted that there is a problem in putting researchfindings into routine clinical practice. Approaches the topic byidentifying the conditions which would have to…

Contracting for Services and Limits to Managed Competition

David Brookfield

The introduction of market forces into the NHS has led to an operationaldivorce between health care providers and those who need health‐care.Central to this change has been the…

Business Planning: Can the Health Service Move from Strategy into Action?

Anthony R. Bennett

Advances the case for the use of one particular business planningtechnique within a National Health Service Trust. At the present time,NHS trusts are required to write strategic…

Fundholding in Northern Region: Practice Managers′ Views

John Newton, John Robinson

Describes the views of practice managers in 30 fundholding practices inthe Northern Region concerning their role in the scheme. Aself‐completion questionnaire was mailed to…

The Market and Health Sector Reform

Charles Collins, David J. Hunter, Andrew Green

A new international orthodoxy has developed on health sector reform. Thedominant theme of the orthodoxy is the alleged benefits of market stylereforms for health development. This…

Towards Better Practice Management: A National Survey of Scottish General Practice Management

Jeremy Grimshaw, Hermione Youngs

Surveys a 50 per cent sample of Scottish practices (stratified by healthboard area), concerning whether they had a practice manager and who hadresponsibility for practice…

Assessment of the Structures and Functions of Fife Core Dementia Teams

Donald Ramsay, Donald R. Coid

A research partnership was formed between Fife Regional Council′s SocialWork Department, Fife Health Board and the Dementia Services DevelopmentCentre and Social Work Research…