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Title The future health workforce / edited by Celia Davies
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Description xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction: A New Workforce in the Making?--C.Davies Delivering a Patient-Centred Service: Reforming Professional Roles--R.Lissauer An Unacknowledged Workforce: Patients as Partners in Healthcare--A.Coulter The Professionalization of Informal Carers?--L.Forbat & J.Henderson Reconfiguring the Clinical Workforce--A.Masterson & A.Cameron Challenging Identities: Working Together Differently in Primary Care--A.Williams Specialisms in Transition: The Case of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery--J.Gallagher A New Push for Public Health?--S.Peckham & E.Wirrmann What Future for Health Care Assistants: High Road or Low Road?--C.Thornley The Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for the Future--G.Lee-Treweek & S.Oerton The Future of the General Practitioner--S.Gillam The Future Healthcare Workforce in Pharmacy--A.Blenkinsopp & C.Bond The Future Health Workforce: An Overview of Trends--C.Sausman Introduction: A New Workforce in the Making?--C.Davies Delivering a Patient-Centred Service: Reforming Professional Roles--R.Lissauer An Unacknowledged Workforce: Patients as Partners in Healthcare--A.Coulter The Professionalization of Informal Carers?--L.Forbat & J.Henderson Reconfiguring the Clinical Workforce--A.Masterson & A.Cameron Challenging Identities: Working Together Differently in Primary Care--A.Williams Specialisms in Transition: The Case of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery--J.Gallagher A New Push for Public Health?--S.Peckham & E.Wirrmann What Future for Health Care Assistants: High Road or Low Road?--C.Thornley The Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for the Future--G.Lee-Treweek & S.Oerton The Future of the General Practitioner--S.Gillam The Future Healthcare Workforce in Pharmacy--A.Blenkinsopp & C.Bond The Future Health Workforce: An Overview of Trends--C.Sausman -- -- -- Introduction: a New Workforce in the Making? 1 -- Celia Davies -- 'Investment and reform': a government bent on change 2 -- An increasingly conducive climate 5 -- The essays in this book 8 -- 1 Delivering a Patient-Centred Service: Reforming 14 -- Professional Roles -- Rachel Lissauer -- Introduction 14 -- Promoting health and well-being 17 -- Timely access to convenient services 20 -- Integrated and seamless services 24 -- Informing and empowering patients 27 -- Conclusion 30 -- 2 An Unacknowledged Workforce: Patients as Partners in 33 -- Healthcare -- Angela Coulter -- Introduction 33 -- Self-care 33 -- Shared decision-making 37 -- Self-management 41 -- Future trends 44 -- 3 The Professionalisation of Informal Carers? 49 -- Liz Forbat and Jeanette Henderson -- Introduction 49 -- Informal carers: an evolving product of the twentieth century? 50 -- Implications when family carers take on professionalised roles 55 -- Inviting new thinking for care policy 58 -- Professionalisation in action 60 -- Conclusion 64 -- 4 Reconfiguring the Clinical Workforce 68 -- Ailsa Cameron and Abigail Masterson -- Introduction 68 -- Drivers for change 69 -- Enablers of change 72 -- Exploring the impact of reconfiguration 74 -- Developing new roles - fix or fudge? 82 -- The way forward 83 -- 5 Challenging Identities: Working Together Differently in -- Primary Care 87 -- Anne Williams -- Introduction 87 -- Beginning to work differently 88 -- Struggling with practice and identity 91 -- Conclusion: identity challenges 98 -- 6 Specialties in Transition: the Case of Oral and -- Maxillofacial Surgery 104 -- Jenny Gallagher -- Introduction 104 -- Background and study design 105 -- Study findings 107 -- Exploring a changing professional project 112 -- Implications for the future 117 -- 7 A New Push for Public Health? 124 -- Stephen Peckham and Erica Wirrmann -- Introduction 124 -- The changing organisational structure of public health 125 -- Public health workforce developments 126 -- Diverse approaches in future 133 -- Five conditions for change 138 -- 8 What Future for Health Care Assistants: High Road or -- Low Road? 143 -- Carole Thornley -- Introduction 143 -- Context 145 -- Casting some light: research on non-registered nurses 147 -- Discussion and conclusions: alternative futures? 155 -- 9 The Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: -- Challenges for the Future 161 -- Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Sarah Oerton -- Introduction 161 -- Education/training of CAM practitioners 164 -- Research-based evidence of efficacy 166 -- Professional boundary-setting and -- boundary-maintenance 168 -- Professional ethics 171 -- Conclusion: integration for whom and on whose terms? 175 -- 10 The Future of the General Practitioner 181 -- Stephen Gillarn -- Introduction 181 -- Past: the fading vision of 1948 182 -- Present: tensions in transition 184 -- Future: a generalist for the twenty-first century 192 -- Conclusion 195 -- 11 The Future Healthcare Workforce in Pharmacy 199 -- Alison Blenkinsopp and Christine Bond -- Introduction 199 -- The policy context 199 -- Workforce supply and demand 207 -- Progress and the future 213 -- 12 The Future Health Workforce: an Overview of Trends -- Charlotte Sausman 222 -- Introduction 222 -- The present health workforce 222 -- New arguments, new ideas 225 -- Drivers of workforce change 229 -- Conclusion 238 -- Appendix: Sector Workforce Development Plan 242 -- Skills for Health -- The sector and its workforce 242
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject National health services -- Great Britain -- Administration.
National health services -- Great Britain -- Personnel management.
Medical personnel -- Great Britain -- Forecasting.
Medical personnel -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Health care reform -- Great Britain.
Health Personnel -- trends.
Forecasting.
Health Care Reform.
Health Policy.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Author Davies, Celia, 1945-
LC no. 2003059598
ISBN 1403919038 cloth