NHS managers and clinical management

Code of Conduct for NHS managers.

Managers accuse ministers of spin over money for NHS.

News The health secretary's announcement last week that he was going to use his powers of direction to ensure that £600m ($960m) of new NHS money went to front line services has angered representatives of health authorities. Alan Milburn told the House of Commons last week that £600m of the extra £2bn which the chancellor of the exchequer announced in the budget for the next financial year (1 A...

Achieving progress through clinical governance? A national study of health care managers' perceptions in the NHS in England.

BACKGROUND A national cross sectional study was undertaken to explore the perceptions concerning the importance of, and progress in, aspects of clinical governance among board level and directorate managers in English acute, ambulance, and mental health/learning disabilities (MH/LD) trusts. PARTICIPANTS A stratified sample of acute, ambulance, and mental health/learning disabilities trusts in...

Nurse managers, diversity and conflict management

Nurse managers work in environments in which conflict is likely to arise due to both the nature of their work and the need to interact with a wide range of individuals. Although the management of conflict has been studied previously, no research has examined the conflict management styles of nurse managers in Oman or any other Arab country. The present study sought to address this issue by exam...

Views of commissioners, managers and healthcare professionals on the NHS Health Check programme: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE To synthesise data concerning the views of commissioners, managers and healthcare professionals towards the National Health Service (NHS) Health Check programme in general and the challenges faced when implementing it in practice. DESIGN A systematic review of surveys and interview studies with a descriptive analysis of quantitative data and thematic synthesis of qualitative data. ...