The author's contention is that the future demands of managing the Health Service in Britain are not being met by current training programmes. In particular, lay‐managers normally…
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The author's contention is that the future demands of managing the Health Service in Britain are not being met by current training programmes. In particular, lay‐managers normally lack any clinical education and suffer accordingly. The preferred solution is to include a sizeable component of especially adapted clinical training into general management education programme to provide managers with a better grasp of health issues and allow them to make fuller use of new managerial tools such as DRGs and QALYs.
The impact of Information Technology on the management of theNational Health Service is reviewed and the view put forward that: (1)current training programmes are inadequate; (2…
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The impact of Information Technology on the management of the National Health Service is reviewed and the view put forward that: (1) current training programmes are inadequate; (2) there is resistance to be found in some management quarters to information technology itself, the technology which underpins it and the “new” management systems which will utilise this information. Positive action is required now if these issues are to be addressed and inertia eliminated.
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This article discusses the attempts by the National Health Service(NHS) to develop medical managers, following the introduction of generalmanagement in 1983. It suggests that…
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This article discusses the attempts by the National Health Service (NHS) to develop medical managers, following the introduction of general management in 1983. It suggests that problems have arisen because, so far, it has been organisational considerations and not those of individual career paths which have informed these developments. It is suggested that this new approach could lead to the development of the NHS as a learning organisation within the context of the original policy objectives.
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THE Deutsche Luftfahrtschau, or as it is more generally known, the Hanover Air Show, held every two years by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft‐ und Raumfahrtindustrie e.V…
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THE Deutsche Luftfahrtschau, or as it is more generally known, the Hanover Air Show, held every two years by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft‐ und Raumfahrtindustrie e.V. (Federal Association of the German Air and Spacecraft Industries). This year's Show will be held from April 26 to May 5 at the Hanover Langenhagen Airport and will be held at the same time as the famous Hanover Fair.
IT is nearly fifteen years since the introduction into civil operations of the Dart turboprop in the Vickers Viscount and the Ghost turbojet in the dc Havilland Comet. For many…
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IT is nearly fifteen years since the introduction into civil operations of the Dart turboprop in the Vickers Viscount and the Ghost turbojet in the dc Havilland Comet. For many years it was thought that the turboprop would remain dominant in the short and medium haul classes, but the continued demand for higher cruising speeds and the passenger appeal of the jet have been largely responsible for the turboprop aircraft being superseded by the new generation of turbofan aircraft.
ROLLS‐ROYCE, LIMITED, have now been building aero‐engines for twenty‐one years, the original “Eagle” having been produced in 1914 when the late Sir Henry Royce was requested by…
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ROLLS‐ROYCE, LIMITED, have now been building aero‐engines for twenty‐one years, the original “Eagle” having been produced in 1914 when the late Sir Henry Royce was requested by the Admiralty to apply to the problem of aircraft motors his vast store of knowledge on the subject of internal combustion engines. It will be remembered that two Rolls‐Royce Eagle engines accomplished the first direct flight across the North Atlantic in 1919.
IN the two years since the last Farnborough Air Show was held by the Society of British Aerospace Companies the aircraft industry has achieved an almost complete metamorphosis…
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IN the two years since the last Farnborough Air Show was held by the Society of British Aerospace Companies the aircraft industry has achieved an almost complete metamorphosis from the body blows in the form of major programme cancellations that almost felled it in 1965 to the very healthy position that it holds today.
NOT perhaps the most vintage of Farnboroughs from the point of view of new aircraft and new technology, but undoubtedly one of the most successful in relation to the business…
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NOT perhaps the most vintage of Farnboroughs from the point of view of new aircraft and new technology, but undoubtedly one of the most successful in relation to the business done. Some fifteen major orders worth over £32½ million were announced, bringing the total order book for the industry this year to more than £782 million already. This exceeds by a handsome margin the new business won by the industry in any nine‐month period in the past, and it is expected that by the end of the year orders worth well over £800 million will have been received. Highlights of the new British hardware on show were the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod and production Harriers on the military side; the B.A.C. One‐Eleven 500, the Handley Page Jetstream, the Garrett‐engined Short Skyvan, and the Beagle Pups showed the resurgence of the industry's civil interests. The number of foreign aircraft that appeared, sponsored in the main by Rolls‐Royce, bore witness to the strength of Britain's aero engine and aircraft equipment industry, and further evidence of this was found in the exhibition proper with many examples of major items of equipment having been adopted for overseas markets. The overall impression at Farnborough was a new‐found confidence in the future of the industry exemplified by a more aggressive and effective export sales policy that has already proved our ability to deliver the goods. It is not possible to cover all the exhibits shown at Farnborough, but the report following describes many of the interesting items.
Accles & Pollock Ltd. of Oldbury, Worcestershire, a TI Steel Tube Division company, will be exhibiting a comprehensive range of precision steel tube and tubular products…
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Accles & Pollock Ltd. of Oldbury, Worcestershire, a TI Steel Tube Division company, will be exhibiting a comprehensive range of precision steel tube and tubular products, including plain, annularly convoluted and thin wall tube, at Farnborough.
THE aircraft gas turbine is intriguing in that there were early attempts at its development not only by the established aero engine companies and research establishments in many…
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THE aircraft gas turbine is intriguing in that there were early attempts at its development not only by the established aero engine companies and research establishments in many countries, but also by manufacturers of marine and industrial turbines and — most successfully — by individuals. The aero engine companies failed because in virtually every instance they attempted to produce a power unit of comparable or lower specific fuel consumption to the traditional piston engine. This led to unduly complex designs involving unattainably high component efficiencies and turbine temperatures at far too early a stage in the development of the new prime mover.