...Vincent Russell; Laura A. Wyness; Eilish McAuliffe; Martin Fellenz Purpose This paper aims to explore hospital consultants' social identification, in terms of perceptions of their position in society, the salient targets for their social identification and how this appears to influence...

...Susan Hamilton; Richard Wilson; Andrew Butcher The debate on reorganisation of hospital services is fertile ground for expert opinion. The Joint Consultants Committee (JCC) have produced the most recent view on the ideal acute hospital size and consultant staffing; however, their ideal is far...

...Mark Hackett; Harry Gee The role of consultant obstetricians is under considerable debate. This has particularly focused on the role of consultants in intrapartum care. The article explores the role of the consultant in delivery suite from the view point of a consultant, a clinical director...

... development needs[ 1 ] and their relationships with other managers[ 2 , 3 ] while doctors have been more concerned with the personal impact of taking on a management role[ 4 ] and how committed doctors are to management at all[ 5 ]. Consultants Doctors Leadership Management National Health...

...Sue Dopson Considers progress made in involving doctors in management, drawing on available ethnographies of local health‐care systems and a small‐scale study of consultants who have moved into clinical director roles or the equivalent. Specifically considers the extent to which the sample believes...

...Olusola O.A. Oni Explores a model of clinical management which attempts to cope with the management‐professional conflict and seeks to enable the hospital to run effectively and efficiently. Two key goals are identified for the hospital which are: to support consultant staff and provide physical...

...Sian Griffiths Discusses Goal 3 of Opportunity 2000 and questions its feasibility within the framework of contemporary society and its health organizations. The possibility of increasing the number of women consultants from 15.5 per cent in 1991 to 20 per cent in 2000 requires substantial changes...

...Karin Newman; Alan Cowling Based on a national evaluation of a £2 million Government‐sponsored programme to send some 260 consultants from the 14 Regional Health Authorities in England to attend Business School management programmes during 1992‐3. Reports on a 20‐month tracking study to assess...

...Helen Jones; Mary Connor; John Bennett Outlines the philosophy, concepts and structure of a course in counselling for consultants. The participants on the first course were introduced to counselling whilst on a management course and had asked for further training. They found the skills useful...

... services. In doing so they will have to take account of the existing GP referral patterns for as “key advisers” GPs can have major influence on patients′ choice of hospitals and consultants. Until now not much has been known about the structure, development and change of referral patterns and the factors...

...Martin Farebrother; Jonathan Asbridge; Christine Miles; Linda Patterson Initiatives for greater involvement of health care professionals,particularly consultants, in health care management in North America and the United Kingdom are compared. Although the historical backgrounds are different...

...S.D. Horsley; D.H. Vaughan; C. Hessett; D.E. Allen A survey of National Health Service hospital consultants in the North Western Region of the UK showed the management activities that they undertook and what management training they thought would be useful. The results will help in planning...