Regulating Medical Work: Formal and Informal Controls (Health Services Management) - Softcover

Allsop, Judith; Mulcahy, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335194044 ISBN 13: 9780335194049

Publisher: Open Univ Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Allsop, Judith, Mulcahy, Linda

About this title

About the Author

Judith Allsop is Professor of Health Policy at South Bank University. She has researched and written a number of books and articles on aspects of health policy. These include Health Policy and the NHS and its sequel Health Policy and the NHS: towards 2000. She has also researched user issues in healthcare and particularly complaint behaviour. She has been variously, a Chair of a Family Practitioner Committee; vice chair of a District Health Authority and member of a Special Health Authority. She was a member of the Wilson committee which reviewed NHS complaint systems and was a member of the Citizen's Charter Unit Complaints Task Force.Linda Mulcahy is the Lawford Reader in Public Law at the University of North London. She has researched and published on disputing behaviour and complaints in a health care setting. Recently, she has conducted a two-year study of the impact of complaints on consultants in one region and a study of dissatisfaction for the Wilson Committee. She is currently evaluating a Department of Health pilot mediation scheme for medical negligence cases.

Review

"Essential reading, or even browsing, for clinical directors, and any professional willing to consider that improvement can be made." - British Journal of Health Care Management "Read Regulating Medical Work for additional clarification, for deepening the discussion of regulation, and as a prod to move beyond the cosmetic." - BMJ "An excellent resource from which to draw for analysis, teaching and research." - Social Legal Studies "...a well-rounded, thorough exploration of the complexities of control...the true value of this booklies in its contribution to our understanding of public institutions,of decision-making, discretion and control, to the concept of 'policing', to the radiating effect of law, even to the concept of law itself." - Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law "...essential reading for anyone wanting to know about the reality ofmedical work in the NHS." - Journal of Nursing Management

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335194044
• ISBN 13: 9780335194049
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230