title: Implementing change in the National Health Service.
abstract: This paper will outline the current changes being imposed on the National Health Service. The literature on change management will be employed to propose some guidelines for health service managers. The National Health Service (NHS) spent much of the 1980s and 1990s learning about the transition from administration to management and must now make the transition from management to leadership. The emphasis is now focused less on doing and more on being.
authors.affiliation: Women and Children's Services, Furness General Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010559:Personnel Management; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom