Journal of Management in Medicine: Volume 16 Issue 4

Skill mix, doctors and nurses: substitution or diversification?

Lindsey Banham, Jim Connelly

This commentary surveys the current arguments for and against modifying the work of doctors and nurses by placing the main viewpoints – substitution and diversification – within…

“The nurse satisfaction, service quality and nurse retention chain”: Implications for management of recruitment and retention

Karin Newman, Uvanney Maylor, Bal Chansarkar

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study, based on interviews with over 130 nurses and midwives in four London Trust hospitals on: the main factors influencing…

Management retention in the NHS

Janet Scott

High turnover amongst middle managers in organisations can lead to strategic instability as well as operational issues. Since the advent of the NHS internal market flatter…

What might encourage later retirement among general practitioners?

Anna Luce, Tim van Zwanenberg, Jenny Firth‐Cozens, Claire Tinwell

More GPs are needed, but there are concerns about retaining the existing workforce quite apart from recruiting new doctors. This survey of GP principals in the Northern deanery…

Primary Care Trusts involving the community: Is community development the way forward?

Philip Crowley, Judith Green, Debbie Freake, Chris Drinkwater

Patient and user involvement is central to current government thinking on the NHS. More comprehensive approaches to organised community participation and community development…