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 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 need to develop methods of measuring nursing workload is not new, but the search for accurate measures to calculate the demand for nursing has assumed greater significance in recent years owing to the advent of resource management and the necessity to manage efficiently the most costly...