Practical Management and Leadership for Doctors: Second Edition [Paperback]

This practical, concise book will help every medical manager survive and thrive in the increasingly challenging world of healthcare. It offers a hands-on introduction to the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour required to succeed in a modern healthcare setting. Focussing on common issues and challenges, the authors examine organisational structures and strategies for productive relationship-building, goal-setting and quality maintenance. This edition updates every chapter, while three new chapters focus on encouraging innovation, how to lead and manage in difficult circumstances, and the major developments in the professionalization of medical management and leadership.

Foreword. Introduction. Preface. About the authors. Introduction. Maintaining productive key relationship. Understanding your organisation. Personal vision, values and goals: alignment with the organisation. People skills. Organisation skills. Maintaining and improving quality. Innovation. When the going gets tough. Continuing development in leadership and management. Balance. Index

John Wattis is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Huddersfield. John was full time Medical Director for Leeds Community and Mental Health NHS Trust from 1995-99. He also held senior offices within the Faculty for Old Age Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has been R&D director for several NHS trusts. Before his retirement from his consultant post in the NHS, he trained as a business and life coach. Since then he has continued in his visiting university post, lecturing various student groups and supporting research. He has taught basic and advló-