.... As a result, established skills and competences can become obsolete. Strong and appropriate competences can enhance an organisation’s performance. Strategic managers then need to ensure that their organisational skills and competences remain of an appropriate mix and measure. They need to continuously develop...

... tends to focus on the processes that have been designed rather than any required changes in human skills and outlook. While this article examines some of the organisational issues surrounding healthcare commissioning, it also covers the changes and demands required of the personnel practising within...

...Ivor L. Roberts The budgets of NHS Trust Hospitals are continually under scrutiny in an endeavour to reduce operating costs. Skill mix, the balance of professional staff to non‐professional staff, is a part of this process and the NHS has introduced a new level of staff called “health care...

... strategic learning design (see Table I). © MCB UP Limited 1994 Health care Higher education Human resource development Management development National Health Service Organizational change Self‐managed learning Skills This article is the first in a series of three which...

... a first year focus on foundation topics and skills and a second year of integration and application. It was also decided to follow the pattern of the NVQs in Management and to address the standards but not to assess them as part of the CM or DMS. This ensures that both the academic assessment and the NVQ...

... and training, and in continuing professional/ occupational development. © Company 1994 Assessment Business education Career planning Education Health care National vocational qualifications Skills Vocational training GNVQs were launched in 1991 with the White Paper Education...