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ArticleLondon journal of primary care2010

What have NHS managers ever done for us?

Edward Granter, Paula Hyde

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Article in London journal of primary care, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Edward Granter
Paula HydeManchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

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Abstract

The image of the UK National Health Service manager has not always been positive. Like others in the public sector, NHS managers are sometimes associated in the media with waste and inefficiency, in contrast to those in 'front line roles'. Thus healthcare professionals and members of the public might ask, in the tradition of Monty Python's Life of Brian, what NHS managers have ever done for us. In this short article, we outline some of the evidence from the literature on attitudes to, and role of, healthcare managers, before drawing on our own interview and observation based fieldwork with managers themselves. We argue that the role of the healthcare manager is not always well understood, and that in a sector facing ever more intense and large scale organisational challenges, managers should be seen as important partners in a health service focused on clinical outcomes.

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efficiencymanagersNHSorganisationspolicy

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PMID25949629
PMCPMC3960710

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