title: Clinical directorates.
abstract: Ten years ago the number of hospitals which had adopted a clinical directorate model of management could have been counted on the fingers of one hand. Today those that have not adopted some variant of the model can be counted in the same way: a meteoric rise by NHS standards.
authors.affiliation: Health Service Management Unit, University of Manchester.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rea
mesh_terms: D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom