Medical Management: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781444145403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str.

Hameen Markar

Opis

This 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

In this world of change, reforms and new government initiatives, can you afford not to build on your existing skills? Whether you are new to medical management or an experienced director wishing to stay up to date and refine your expertise, this book will be an invaluable source of advice to help you manage the delivery of high-quality care.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Hameen Markar MBBS (Sri Lanka) FRCP(Edin) FRCPsych MPhil(Edin)Retired Medical Director, Bedfordshire & Luton Mental Health NHS Trust and South Essex Partnership Foundation Trust (Bedford & Luton); Formerly Associate Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

Geraldine O'Sullivan MB BCh BAO (National University Ireland) MD (NUI), FRCPsych, Diploma Company Direction (IoD). Executive Director - Quality and Medical Leadership, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.