Description
Book SynopsisThis essential guide provides a lifeline to authoritative, reliable information on medical management, giving you all the skills you need whether managing a junior colleague as a lead doctor, or running multidisciplinary consortia in the NHS or private sectors.
- Learn key skills from leadership, managing change, quality control, and project management through to doctors in difficulty, appraisals and revalidation, managing exceptional performance, and poor performance
- Comprehensive coverage of NHS and private healthcare, primary care, acute and emergency care, mental health, and many other sectors
- Gain insight into important topics such as healthcare innovations and technologies, implementing evidence-based medicine, medical education, patient safety, and primary care consortia
- Refine your management skills with advice, wisdom, and practical help from key opinion leaders, medical professionals, and management experts
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Table of Contents
Management in the NHS – general issues: Healthcare management – an overview. Quality and safety. Leadership styles and skills. Information technology, innovation and healthcare. Healthcare commissioning and contracting. Measuring healthcare outcomes. Change and project management. Evidence-based healthcare and medical management. Medical management – specific issues: The role of the board and its directors, including the executive medical director. The doctor as chief executive. Roles and challenges of a clinical director. Financial issues for doctors. Developing personal effectiveness: what does it take to become a good doctor?. Doctors in difficulty. Medical education and training. Appraisals and revalidation. Public health. Medical management in mental health services. Medical management in acute care. Medical management in private healthcare. Medical management in primary care. Index.
