title: A future for clinical management.
abstract: The NHS has been moving rapidly towards establishing clinical directorates in all specialties. It has been part of an attempt, along with the resource management initiative, to involve doctors in management, and to encourage them to take responsibility for the managerial and resource dimensions to clinical activity. Haydn Cook identifies a problem.
authors.affiliation: Northallerton Health Services NHS Trust.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D008511:Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D008486:Physician Executives; D013038:Specialization; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom