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Management training – what do we need?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Danitza Jadresic*
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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I have just finished a one-week non-residential course on management skills for senior registrars. Like many of the people who attended the course I had put my name down in order to get a better idea of what the post-1-April era would mean for my professional practice. We had by and large no major interest in a career in management and yet we were keen to acquire ‘management skills’ in order to ‘produce’ what was required of us by the ‘cultural’ changes affecting the NHS.

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