title: Pandora's Box: clinical directorates and the NHS.
abstract: Reports on the research concerning the current debate surrounding the maturity of clinical directorates. Indicates that there is some ambiguity as to how directorates should be structured and strategically managed. Finds evidence that trust executive boards need to involve clinicians in setting strategy and to support clinical directors with suitable business managers to manage the boundary between strategic and operational issues.
authors.affiliation: Management Development Group, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corbridge
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D008486:Physician Executives; D010819:Physician's Role; D006113:United Kingdom