title: Improving quality and cost.
abstract: Dr Stephen Fox says the provision of healthcare products should be viewed as a large-scale organisational design problem which needs to be guided by, and evaluated against, fundamental principles. Dr Fox carries out research and consultancy with Sheffield Hallam University's School of Engineering. His focuses on the formulation and application of design methodologies.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D009874:Operations Research; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom