Developing paradoxical thinking in middle managers
Clarke M
Journal of Management Development, (UK), Vol 17 No 3 98
Start page: 191 No of pages: 16
Summarizes the changes that have taken place in the middle managers’ role and in the way that they are expected to carry out their managerial responsibilities, reducing their role as a technical expert and increasing the need for them to possess more generalist managerial skills. 

The number of children being looked after by local authorities is increasing year on year according to according to figures published today.
Nearly ninety thousand children are looked after at any one point in time by local authorities in England.
The figures, for the year ending 31 March 1997, show that the total number of children looked after at any time during the year was 88, 700. The number has increased by five percent over the past five years. 

Health Minister Alan Milburn today announced a major recruitment drive to boost by 50 per cent the number of staff centrally tackling the 100 million pound annual cost of prescription fraud in the NHS.
The Prescription Pricing Authority’s Fraud Investigation Unit, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is recruiting 20 more staff.
Mr Milburn said this was another significant stage in the Government’s action programme to stamp out fraud in the NHS. 

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