ProNurse

As co-writer on We All Fall Down I knew very little about the healthcare system before I wrote it, so the credit for the management theories goes entirely to my co-writer Julie Wright. Between us we created a textbook written in the style of a thriller novel where the reader follows the progress of Beth, a NHS hospital Admissions Manager as ...

Much debate is whirling around the issue of how best to bring the management of healthcare into the 21st century. But what is really astounding, is the lack of basic understanding of the nature of healthcare operations. There is a huge amount that healthcare management can learn from manufacturing. The production of widgets can, with the right knowledge, be executed with ...

Over the years, the subject of success has held a fascination for me. This, along with my almost obsessive desire to understand how things work, has led me to a strange hobby - trying to determine what people have done to be successful. This odd pastime first started to emerge some years ago when I was employed by a large UK ...

Some years ago I had the privilege of working with a wonderful, very well respected surgeon with whom I shared many of my research findings. In the course of my day jobs, it often fell to me to have to interrupt his Sunday morning, pre-lunch sherry with a phone call to determine which of his patients (that were due for admission ...

Who would be a Senior Nurse? It’s not just the patients in the ward in front of you who need to be cared for and treated, it’s all those waiting to take their place in the bed. You try to get the best use of out of the available resources but there’s always something, or someone, causing an extra complication to ...