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Project management

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Management for Child Health Services

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Managing the volume of reorganisation, innovation and challenge that NHS senior managers confront, inevitably involves them in meeting situations, and being called to make decisions, for areas in which there is little precedent or established practice. For these areas it is unlikely that outcomes can be reliably forecast.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Michael Rigby

  2. Mary Sheridan Centre for Child Health, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, London, UK

    Euan M. Ross

  3. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, UK

    Norman T. Begg

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  1. Centre for Health Planning and Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

    Michael Rigby

  2. Mary Sheridan Centre for Child Health, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, London, UK

    Euan M. Ross

  3. PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, UK

    Norman T. Begg

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Rigby, M., Ross, E.M., Begg, N.T. (1998). Project management. In: Rigby, M., Ross, E.M., Begg, N.T. (eds) Management for Child Health Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3144-3_14

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