Volume 11 Number 1 contents

Editorials

Management and medicine - issues in quality, risk and culture
D Smith

All systems go!
J Simpson

Personal perspective

Induction for newly appointed consultants
D Black

Management issues in healthcare

The new NHS: modern, definable? A questionnaire to assess knowledge of, and attitudes to, the new NHS 
A Curley, G McClure, D Spence and S Craig

The processes of change in medical practice - a case study of the treatment of chronic anal fissure
A Franks

Involving Irish clinicians in hospital management roles - towards a functional integration model
R McDermott, I Callanan and A Buttimer

Commentated case study

The games people play
Commentators: C Bunch, S Elson, E Robertson and J Scarpello

Book reviews