The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee made its first report, “Planning the Medical Workforce”, to the Secretary of State in December 1992; recommending that research should be undertaken to quantify the manpower effects of skill mix initiatives. These issues are being raised against a...

The combination of different skills used to provide particular types of primary and hospital care varies considerably from general practice to general practice and from hospital to hospital. Furthermore, skill mixes are changing rapidly as decision makers attempt both to reduce labour costs and...

The general aim of this one-year project, funded by the Department of Health and in collaboration with CASPE, has been to investigate the relationship between case-mix and nursing workload measures. Specifically, this report focuses on the underlying issue of examining methodologies and...

The objective of this paper is to set out the key findings and implications from an analysis of the activity and workload of nurses of different grades. This is with a view to identifying nursing skill mixes and working practices that may reduce workforce demand for more highly skilled nursing...

The purpose of this Discussion Paper is to examine the constraints upon, and opportunities for, spreading the workload of general practitioners (GPs) more effectively and efficiently among members of the Primary Health Care Tea, (PHCT). Current knowledge of GP activity is outdated and based on...

The concept of skill mix is widely recognised in the vocabulary of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce but because of its complexity is understood, elusive to define and therefore difficult to measure. Many issues surround the concept of skill mix, some of which are concepts in their own...

The objective of the study was to examine the links between inputs into the process of nursing, in particular, the skill mix of nursing staff and the outputs of nursing in terms of the quality and outcome of care. The review of literature revealed several ambiguities and conceptual problems at...