Cash Limits and Hospital Prescribing

William J. Jackson, Audrey S. Paterson, Chris Pong and Simona Scarparo

No 1101, Accountancy Discussion Papers from Accountancy Research Group, Heriot Watt University

Abstract: A great deal of effort has gone into examinations of management and accounting practices within the NHS, however, very little attention has been paid to the management of medicines within the hospital sector. This paper aims to address this situation by examining from a secondary care perspective how clinicians within secondary care are responding to and coping with indirectly imposed cash limits, efficiency savings targets and increasing budgetary control. A major conclusion is that the application of this economic rationalism served to revitalise the concept of social care and professionalism contained within the clinical professional culture.

Date: 2011
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