Managing Clinical Professionals in Healthcare

Module code: MN7415

This module will explore how medics are managed in the NHS compared to other clinical staff, such as nurses and midwives. It will also look at how medical clinicians are managed in comparison with other professionals, such as accountants, teachers and lawyers; plus contrast the management of counterpart clinicians in other countries.

You will explore and debate the full range of aspects that make up the experience of employment as a medical clinician in the NHS: professional regulation (e.g. GMC); government policy (e.g. ‘7-day NHS’) statutory regulation (e.g. junior doctors’ contract), employment relations (e.g. trade unions) and inequalities (e.g. gender and race).

Topics covered

• Who manages medical clinicians’ and why?
• What is the medical labour process and how does it differ to that for non-medical professionals?
• Professional and statutory regulation in the clinical workplace?
• Employment relations and inequalities in the medical workplace
• How does the management of NHS medics compare to international counterparts?