title: Personal development. Skills to pay the bills.
abstract: Middle managers will need to develop a wide range of previously uncalled-for skills to cope in the new NHS. These include analysing information, examining patient flows and making business cases for investment. As commissioners, managers will also require skills contract management, service-level agreements and dealing with the private sector.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000193:education*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011361:Professional Competence; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom