Managers. Bureaucracy: hit and myth

Health Serv J. 1998 Feb 19;108(5592):30-1.

Abstract

The poor image of NHS management is largely undeserved. The greatest expansion in the number of managers took place before the introduction of the internal market. Many of the white paper proposals, including the establishment of primary care groups, suggest a substantial bureaucracy.

MeSH terms

  • Administrative Personnel
  • Contract Services / organization & administration
  • Efficiency, Organizational
  • Humans
  • Motivation
  • Primary Health Care / organization & administration
  • Public Opinion*
  • State Medicine / economics
  • State Medicine / organization & administration*
  • United Kingdom