How best to organise acute hospital services?

Abstract

Health authority has no power Editor-Majeed's editorial on the referral of Dr Peter Mansfield to the General Medical Council is flawed as he assumes that Worcestershire Health Authority has power in managing its responsibility for a successful public health immunisation campaign. 1 It is precisely because the authority is impotent as a public statutory public body that it asked the GMC to intervene.

Unhappy doctors: what are the causes and what can be done?

“…One area where government often fails to meet the expectations of the profession is in not using evidence to design policy 19. There is an unavoidable conflict between the reductionist approach of medicine and the messy, political, and complex world of policy.…”