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Psychiatric Bulletin (2006) 30: 396. doi: 10.1192/pb.30.10.396
© 2006 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Psychiatric Bulletin (2006) 30: 396
© 2006 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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Development of management skills

Amanda Thompsell, Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry

Care Home Support Team, Southwark PCT, Dulwich Hospital, London SE22 8PT

Cait Goddard, Consultant Psychiatrist

Community Team North, Mental Health of Older Adults Services, 59 Cordwell Road, London SE13 5QY, email: Cait.Goddard{at}slam.nhs.uk

Griffiths & Readhead (Psychiatric Bulletin, June 2006, 30, 201–203) highlight the importance of medical managers in psychiatry. However, it seems to us that an effective manager needs a basic set of tools and leadership qualities to be effective in a management role. These skills, greater in some individuals than others, still need development by formal training. It is therefore vital that appropriate training is offered to those in management positions.

We have also found that sharing management problems with other managers of different specialties has been helpful for our own specific areas, and although we endorse support for psychiatrists in their role as managers, we also suggest that having people from other specialties in the support group is beneficial.

We have both recently benefited from the Clinical Systems Improvement Course run by the South East London Strategic Health Authority’s modernisation team. Unfortunately this team is likely to be disbanded in the move to a single London strategic health authority, following further redisorganisation in the National Health Service (Oxman et al, 2005).

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OXMAN, A. D., SACKETT, D. L., CHALMERS, I., et al (2005) A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganisation theories. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 98, 563 –568.[Abstract/Free Full Text]





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