title: Clinical management where medicine meets management. Down to earth.
abstract: Appreciative inquiry is a method that can help NHS staff during periods of change management. Staff turnover and sickness absence are already down at one heart centre that has used the technique. People who have attended the away-days say approachability to senior staff is improved.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hobbs
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002300:Cardiac Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009013:Morale; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom