Management for Clinicians - A Handbook

This Handbook has been compiled with the object of assembling together many of the more important recent official documents and informed statements about the organisation, planning and management of the National Health Service. The contents of the Handbook are

therefore concerned essentially with supplying information, not with criticism or evaluation. The sections in Part 1 of the Handbook cover the major areas to be discussed at the Seminar. The first section discusses the involvement of clinicians in management, and the next section examines the demands and constraints facing providers of health care. This is followed by a section setting out the revised structure of the NHS. The final four sections are

concerned with planning, the medical advisory machinery, industrial relations, and allocating money in the NHS. Part 2 of the Handbook presents some facts about the Region and Part 3 reproduces, FOR REFERENCE ONLY, some of the key circulars about the structure and management of the NHS.