Medical Management: A Practical Guide A Practical Guide

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.

Management in the NHS – general issuesHealthcare management – an overviewPeter GravesQuality and safetyElizabeth J HaxbyLeadership styles and skillsJames Matheson and Jacky HaydenInformation technology, innovation and healthcareHameen Markar and Nadeem Mazi-KotwalHealthcare commissioning and contractingJohn Hague and Matt FosseyMeasuring healthcare outcomesJulian Flowers and Raja BadrakalimuthuChange and project managementHameen MarkarEvidence-based healthcare and medical management Mark Agius and Anton GrechMedical management – specific issuesThe role of the board and its directors, including the executive medical director Geraldine O’SullivanThe doctor as chief executive Philip SugarmanRoles and challenges of a clinical director Sajeeva JayalathFinancial issues for doctors Trish Donovan and Peter GravesDeveloping personal effectiveness: what does it take to become a good doctor? Hameen MarkarDoctors in difficulty Peter Old and Alastair ScotlandMedical education and training Simon GregoryAppraisals and revalidation J ThiagarajanPublic health Paul CosfordMedical management in mental health services Sylvia Tang and Geraldine O’SullivanMedical management in acute care Ed NealeMedical management in private healthcare Duncan Empey and Sheila PeskettMedical management in primary careParesh DawdaIndex

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.