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4. Resource management in health and social care: essential checklists. By William Bryans. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford, 2005. Paperback 147pp. ISBN 1-85775-627-4. DOI: 10.1177/1466424006000290.
Although, in the early days of the NHS, senior clinicians probably had greater control over how specific resources were allocated than they have today, this was also a time when healthcare came at a fraction of today's costs and the public's expectations and knowledge of the system were substantially less. Nowadays health and social care are massive consumers of public money. Increased accountability demands that administrators not only balance the books but plan...