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.
Middlesex University Business School, London, UK.
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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