Question Tag: Centralised Management

For each of the decisions below, identify whom you would expect to make the decision and briefly explain why.

1. Decisions about the medical treatment or surgical treatment for individual patients.
2. Establishing policy on hygiene standards in the hospitals.
3. Scheduling operations in the operating theatres of each hospital.
4. Discharging patients from hospital.
5. Deciding the visiting times for patients in each hospital.
6. Prescribing drugs for the treatment of patients.
7. Hiring new staff, such as hospital porters and nurses.
8. Dealing with payments from insurance companies for the treatment of insured patients.