{"title":"Consensus management in the British National Health Service: implications for the United States?","authors":"R. Schulz, S. Harrison","doi":"10.2307/3349840","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Most operational services within the reorganized British National Health Service are managed by local teams: medical specialist, general practitioner, nurse, administrator, and finance officer. Decision by consensus has worked well to integrate services in a complex and fiscally constrained system. As larger and more formal systems of health care emerge in the United States, the British experience may be relevant.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"10 1","pages":"657-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349840","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Most operational services within the reorganized British National Health Service are managed by local teams: medical specialist, general practitioner, nurse, administrator, and finance officer. Decision by consensus has worked well to integrate services in a complex and fiscally constrained system. As larger and more formal systems of health care emerge in the United States, the British experience may be relevant.