Synopsis This book analyses Managerial Services like-Challenges of Health and Hospital Administration in New Millennium; Socio-Economic Development and Health Care Nature of Health Care Administration: Are We Barking up the Wrong Tree?; Financial Management and Cost Containment; Manpower Planning; Applying Management by Objectives to Hospitals; Quality Control in Health Care in a Hospital; Quality Assurance in Health Care; Referred System; Referral System in Health Services; Management of Hospital Waste; Hospital Waste Management; Medical Ethics; Lesson of Experiences for India’s National Health Policy; Modernizing Health Administration; Medical Education Perspectives: Appendix, Index. All the chapters have been written by experts based on their wide readings, personal experience and research. The chapters have been supplemented with constructive suggestions based on facts to improve the functions of hospitals. It is hoped that this book would be of great help to the policy-makers, planners and decision-makers as well as to those interested in hospital administration for study and research. In this Foreword to this book Padmashree Dr. C.P. Thakur, has beautifully stressed the importance of this book: “To meet the challenge of hospital administration in the new millennium, the editors of this book on the subject have done tremendous work in producing a compendium of the articles written specially for this book, by the top medical experts of the country. I am sure this book will be a useful guide for effecting improvements in hospital administration all over the country.”