Outsourcing therapy services. A strategy for professional autonomy.
Explores the problems and opportunities for professions allied to medicine (PAMS) in the new NHS internal market. Uses a mechanism from IT, namely outsourcing, to provide a new organizational model for the effective delivery of care by this group of professionals who are marginalized by the new role of the doctor as manager.
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Middlesex University Business School, London, UK.
D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D003284:Contract Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010814:Physical Therapy Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce