Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing
indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress …

Performance indicators (PIS) are central to the Thatcher Administration's strategy for
reforming the management of government. This paper reports on research into the …

Observers of British health care could be forgiven for thinking that quality assurance was
invented in the 1980s. This paper aims to demonstrate that although the term was rarely …

As the practice of formal measurement of the performance of public services spreads
attempts are beginning to be made to combine this measurement with the even more recent …

Structures of control in health management Page 1 Page 2 Structures of control in health
management How has the National Health Service been restructured? Has professional …

Quality'is now high on the policy agenda for many of our major public services. This article
raises the question of what are the respective roles in securing quality of, on the one hand …

A review of the literature on management budgeting, combined with recent fieldwork in a
number of health authorities, points to major weaknesses in both the theory and practices of …

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Following the 1989 white paper Working for patients medical audit has emerged as the
principal officially-approved means of assuring the quality of NHS medical care. Beneath the …

Swiss hospitals were required to implement a prospective payment system for
reimbursement using a diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) classification system by the …