Abstract
The quotation is still true today and will remain so because it highlights a key leadership task. This is to enlist doctors’ cooperation in the provision of effective and efficient health care. It is a task that must not be avoided by those who should be seeking to influence doctors.
‘The doctors lead the technology, and therefore the pattern of service. Unless managers get the doctors with them, everything else is just window-dressing. That is where you have got to get change.’
(District General Manager in the Templeton study)
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Notes and references
Ian Morrison and Richard Smith, ‘The Future of Medicine’, British Medical Journal, 309 (October 29,1994) pp. 1099–1100.
NHSTA, ‘Doctors and Management Development: Policy Proposals from the National Health Service Training Authority’ (NHSTA, 1988) p. 7.
Allan Bruce and Sandra Hill, ‘Relationships between Doctors and Managers: The Scottish Experience’, Journal of Management in Medicine (1994) vol. 8, no. 5, p. 56.
Sue Dopson, ‘Management: The One Disease Consultants Did Not Think Existed’, Journal of Management in Medicine (1994) vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 34–5.
Advertisement in The Health Service Journal (April 14, 1994) p. 56.
John Harvey-Jones, Making it Happen: Reflections on Leadership (London: Collins, 1988) p. 126.
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Stewart, R. (1996). Leadership and doctors. In: Leading in the NHS. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24309-9_4
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