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Anonymous | 25-Sep-2012 3:37 pm

I hear what you say, but while the very senior posts specify clinicians or draw heavily on their background knowledge, they should maintain a dual accountability to their profession and to their employer.

Managers who don't have clinical registration are still responsible for what they do and should be answerable for their conduct as such to their employers and perhaps in law too. But we ask more of clinicians because they will bring a different & particular set of skills to management. They shouldn't be able to dodge either of their responsibilities. Yes, professional bodies are sometimes pretty hopeless at this, but that's another problem altogether.

I agree about making non-clinical managers accountable to some code of conduct, but given their diverse backgrounds & values, how would you do this? Seem to vaguely remember Ken Jarrould having a go at this in the past....