Management training – what do we need?

Abstract

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.