title: Consensus management in the British National Health Service: implications for the United States?
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.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D009934:Organization and Administration; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States