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Enabling Leaders to Change: interventions with established GP principals through a mid-career break scheme

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Organisational Behaviour in Health Care

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Medicine features ahead of many other professions in terms of stress. This has been well documented and is reported in the literature as contributing to a high incidence of depression, suicide, social isolation, alcoholism and drug abuse (Quill and Williamson, 1990, Johnson, 1991). However stress at work is a complex problem especially for GPs. Work in the 1980s found that the main sources of stress for GPs included risk management of patients, isolation, poor relationships with other doctors and disillusionment with the growing awareness of the change in the role of the OP (Braithwaite and Ross, 1988).

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  1. Virginia Morley
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  2. Nicki Spiegal
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  3. Faruk Majid
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  4. Priscilla Laurence
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Middlesex University Business School, UK

    Annabelle L. Mark (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow) (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow)

  2. Oxford Health Care Management Institute, Templeton College, UK

    Annabelle L. Mark (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow) (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow)

  3. Institute of Health Services Management, UK

    Annabelle L. Mark (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow) (Senior Lecturer in Health Management and Organisational Behaviour, Research Associate, Fellow)

  4. Templeton College, Oxford, UK

    Sue Dopson (Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organisational Behaviour) (Lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organisational Behaviour)

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© 1999 Virginia Morley, Nicki Spiegal, Faruk Majid and Priscilla Laurence

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Morley, V., Spiegal, N., Majid, F., Laurence, P. (1999). Enabling Leaders to Change: interventions with established GP principals through a mid-career break scheme. In: Mark, A.L., Dopson, S. (eds) Organisational Behaviour in Health Care. Organizational Behaviour in Health Care. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379398_7

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