Volume 9 Number 1 contents

Personal perspectives

Management development for clinicians: a personal perspective from a postgraduate dean
S Heard

Professional appraisal: an approach to implementing clinical governance in primary care
R Westcott

Working with people

Modernising the anticoagulant service: improving efficiency and patient accessibility, new technologies, new working practices
E J Watts, B Allan, N Kelaher, J Clark, R Rackham

Management issues in health care

Retirement intentions of the consultant medical workforce in the North West of England
S Atherton, J Murray

A "Breakthrough'' approach to reducing delays and patient waiting times
H Bevan, J Penny, A Layton

Consultants into the new millennium
C Bradbeer, C Roberts, T Matthews

Implementing clinical governance
R Huws

Strategic planning and development

Strategic planning and development: a team effort
D Spence

Classic management text

Lewis Gunn and "perfect implementation''
S Harrison

Case study

A "bloody" nightmare

Soap opera

Donford: March 2000 

Research reviews

Book reviews