{"title":"Goal planning, needs assessment & advocacy.","authors":"P Kennedy, N Pearce","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The White Paper, Health of the Nation, and the Patients' Charter both seek to emphasise the importance of fully involving and informing patients about the treatment they receive. Much work on implementation of these documents has concentrated on achieving specific targets which, although essential, ignore the key managerial theme of changing behaviour, approach and attitudes in the staff/patient relationship and ensuring that patients are empowered through this relationship. Paul Kennedy and Nigel Pearce suggest that carefully planned and managed change through the use of a comparatively simple and well established approach has a major impact on the achievement of these initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 3","pages":"17, 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20996808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The SSD's (social services department) management challenge.","authors":"N Raynes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health services managers are used to organisational change, but social services departments have been addressing, and are still facing, major challenges associated with implementing the changes to community care provision. Norma Raynes gives a perspective on local authorities' culture and bureaucracy, which need to change if the community care revolution is to be sustained.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 3","pages":"10-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20996805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ophthalmology.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three main conditions cause blindness and loss of sight, affecting significant numbers of-mainly elderly-patients. Advances in technology mean that many may now be treated as day cases though this trend-and achievement of treatment and prevention targets like those set in the rest of Europe and the USA-is not yet widespread.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 3","pages":"21-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management ... working day of a health services manager.","authors":"L Longstaff","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 3","pages":"34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21032600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management ... working day of a health services manager.","authors":"J Audsley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The private sector is not immune from financial pressures; some of the effects of these directly affect staff. As manager of a small independent hospital, John Audsley, Director, Benenden Hospital, finds that his proximity to staff--and patients--is always a factor in decision making.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 2","pages":"34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A future for clinical management.","authors":"H Cook","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The NHS has been moving rapidly towards establishing clinical directorates in all specialties. It has been part of an attempt, along with the resource management initiative, to involve doctors in management, and to encourage them to take responsibility for the managerial and resource dimensions to clinical activity. Haydn Cook identifies a problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 2","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21032597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can IT (information technology) help in Working for Patients.","authors":"B Jones, G Worsdale","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Government's White Paper, Working for Patients, identified as a key objective the improvement in quality and quantity of care available to NHS patients. This, the Government argued, is to be achieved by the introduction of a market economy within the NHS. But is the introduction of intra competition and contracting for patients sufficient? Can these measures alone improve the quality and quantity of care available for the patients? Bernard Jones and Graham Worsdale argue that the strategic use of information technology (IT) is an essential element in Working for Patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 2","pages":"13-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doctors' dilemma?","authors":"J Lyall","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Finite resources--infinite demand. The need to ration--or prioritize--health care has resurfaced as an issue for debate among managers, politicians and clinicians. Joanna Lyall reports on the arguments for and against.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 2","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General practice.","authors":"J Hoare","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medicine is developing at an extraordinary rate in all clinical specialties, the pace largely driven by science and technology. General practice is developing professionally at a similar pace, but in addition is experiencing a huge change in the management of primary care, generated by the engine of policy and organisational change in the NHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":79614,"journal":{"name":"Health services management","volume":"89 2","pages":"21-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20997629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}