London, Royal Opera House: ‘The Tempest’

Can Viable Systems Modelling Explain the Management Problems of London's Royal Opera House?

London's Royal Opera House has undertaken a much-needed redevelopment. The management of the operation has been problematic, bringing the House close to insolvency, and causing the resignation of many senior staff. This paper summarises these events, and earlier papers analysing them using systemic methods. It examines the organisation's structure using Beer's Viable Systems Model. The manageme...

Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

Royal Brompton Hospital locally known as The Brompton, can trace its origins back to the 1840s. As a tuberculosis and respiratory hospital, it pioneered treatment in the field but it was only in the late 1940s that cardiac care was explored. Today, from its West London site in Chelsea, it is still renowned for its respiratory work but throughout the second part of the 20th century, and into the...

Royal Society of London

Royal Society of London

From the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and The Royal London Hospital NHS Trusts, London, England

©2003 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.85B1.13055 $2.00 e have compared the survival and radiological outcome at ten years after total hip replacement using two techniques for preparing the femoral canal. The same prosthesis was used throughout and all operations were performed by the same surgical team. In technique 1 the canal was over-reamed by 2 mm a...