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Volume 20, Issue 2
1 May 1994
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Research Article| May 01 1994

Outsourcing Therapy Services: A Strategy for Professional Autonomy

Annabelle Mark
Associate Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University Business School, Hendon, London, UK.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7158
Print ISSN: 0955-2065
© MCB UP Limited
1994
Health Manpower Management (1994) 20 (2): 37–40.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09552069410060094

Explores the problems and opportunities for professions allied to medicine (PAMS) in the new NHS internal market. Uses a mechanism from IT, namely outsourcing, to provide a new organizational model for the effective delivery of care by this group of professionals who are marginalized by the new role of the doctor as manager.

Keywords: Health care, Internal markets, Medical professions, National Health Service, Organizational change, Outsourcing, Resource management, Specialization
© MCB UP Limited
1994
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