Volume 9 Number 3 contents

Personal perspectives

Management in action: Roger Bullock
T Scott

Multidisciplinary learning is essential if services are to be effectively centred on the patient
R Chambers

General practice, special management?
C J Cowton, J E Drake

Management issues in health care

What's new in strategic thinking? Recent developments and their implications for NHS strategy
A Mark, R Lynch

The burden of non-specific chest pain on the health service
S Kisely

Buggins' turn or Buggins' choice - a sequel
P Cavenagh

Operating theatres: always a problem?
J K Moore

Doctors in management - theory and practice

Individual doctors and clinical governance - achieving an appropriate balance of support and challenge in hospital medicine
N Redfern, G Bynoe, M Connor, C O'Halloran, J Pokora

Commentated case study

You can take a horse to water . . . 
Commentators: M Cheshire, I Scott, I Haslock, C Welsh, B Thornley, P Bourdillon, H Davies