Controlling Health Professionals: The Future of Work and Organization in the NHS (State of Health) [Feb 01, 1994] Harrison, Stephen and Pollitt, Christopher

For 20 years, British governments of both the left and right have tried to improve the management of the NHS. But the distinctive contribution of the Thatcher governments of the 1980s has defined this very much in terms of controlling health professionals: doctors, nurses and others. This volume offers an explanation of why this approach was adopted. It examines in detail the various methods of control employed and assesses the consequences for the future of professional work and organization in the NHS. The book should be interest to a wide range of health professionals including doctors, nurses, health authority members and managers and should also be useful for students of social policy and health studies.

Albert A. Harrison is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is coauthor of "Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight "(1985) and "From Antarctica to Outer Space: Life in Isolation and Confinement "(1991), and author of "After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life "(1997).