The Future Health Workforce
Will be published approx. on 25. November 2003
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4039-1903-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explains and challenges recent government thinking about reforming the professions in health care. Chapters cover recent developments in nurse-led care and shifting boundaries in medicine. The unacknowledged role of health care assistants, the place of complementary therapists, carers and patients themselves are considered. There is a focus on clearer visions for the future and on bringing public health more firmly into primary care. Authors are all active researchers whose accounts will be helpful for specialist and non-specialists alike.
Reviews / Votes
'The value of this volume lies in the range and pertinence of questions on which it requires policy makers and managers to reflect before undertaking reconfigurations of the workforce.' - Anne McBride, Lecturer of Employment Studies, Manchester School of Management's Health Organisations Research Centre, Health Service Journal
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Person
AILSA CAMERON Research Fellow, University of Bristol ANGELA COULTER Chief Executive,Picker Institute Europe LIZ FORBAT School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University JENNY GALLAGHER Lecturer in Dental Public Health, King's College London STEPHEN GILLAM Senior Advisor, King's Fund JEANETTE HENDERSON School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK School of Health and Social Welfare, The Open University RACHEL LISSAUER Surgery Improvement Manager, Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust ABIGAIL MASTERSON Director, Abi Masterson Consulting Ltd SARAH OERTON Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan STEPHEN PECKHAM Head of Department, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Oxford Brookes University CAROLE THORNLEY Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Keele University ANNE WILLIAMS Professor of Nursing, The School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea ERICA WIRRMANN.
Content
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