Managing medical practice: time for a quantitative approach?

In this article author presents an idea about medical practice management. It discusses, how practitioners should manage their own practice, and how their practice should be managed by non-clinician colleagues. Article gives investigative and monitoring activities of Commission for Health Improvement and General Medical Council, to enhance clinical practices of practitioners. The National Health Services of Great Britain has collected Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). HES includes information about characteristics of individual patient episodes. This could be used in efficient hospital management as it gives the routine performance data of practitioners. Some graphs are traced which shows variation in surgical activities.