Judging Clinical Protocols in the NHS, 1998

The aims of this project were :<br> to explore the usefulness of the typology of rule-related behaviours specified by Reason, Parker and Lawton (1998);<br> to collect information on the reaction of medical staff to the advent of proceduralisation as a way of managing risk in the health service;<br> to assess the differential impact of proceduralisation on a group specifically educated in the exercise of professional judgement (doctors), and a group with more highly prescribed working practices (nurses);<br> to assess the effects of proceduralisation in the health service on public perceptions of risk and responsibility;<br> to make a contribution to risk management policy in the health service.