Managing change in laboratory services.
With increasing demands on limited budgets DGMs and UGMs are now looking at laboratory services often with cost containment and reducing duplication in mind. The most popular solutions being considered are centralisation and/or rationalisation both of which appear to be based on a view of the service as a simple supply and demand system. This view is inadequate and insufficient as a basis for planning and implementing change such as rationalisation.
D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010336:Pathology; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom