The future health workforce / 
edited by Celia Davies ; foreword by John Wynn Owen. 
 - xvi, 262 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Foreword /  Introduction: a New Workforce in the Making? /  'Investment and reform': a government bent on change --  An increasingly conducive climate --  Delivering a Patient-Centred Service: Reforming Professional Roles /  Promoting health and well-being --  Timely access to convenient services --  Integrated and seamless services --  Informing and empowering patients --  An Unacknowledged Workforce: Patients as Partners in Healthcare /  Self-care --  Shared decision-making --  Self-management --  Future trends --  The Professionalisation of Informal Carers? /  Informal carers: an evolving product of the twentieth century? --  Implications when family carers take on professionalised roles --  Inviting new thinking for care policy --  Professionalisation in action --  Reconfiguring the Clinical Workforce /  Drivers for change --  Enablers of change --  Exploring the impact of reconfiguration --  Developing new roles--fix or fudge? --  The way forward --  Challenging Identities: Working Together Differently in Primary Care /  Beginning to work differently --  Struggling with practice and identity --  Conclusion: identity challenges --  Specialties in Transition: the Case of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery /  Study findings --  Exploring a changing professional project --  Implications for the future --  A New Push for Public Health? /  John Wynn Owen --  Celia Davies --  Rachel Lissauer --  Angela Coulter --  Liz Forbat, Jeanette Henderson --  Ailsa Cameron, Abigail Masterson --  Anne Williams --  Jenny Gallagher --  Stephen Peckham, Erica Wirrmann --  List of Tables --  List of Figures --  Foreword --  Notes on the Contributors --  Introduction: a New Workforce in the Making? --  Delivering a Patient-Centred Service: Reforming Professional Roles --  An Unacknowledged Workforce: Patients as Partners in Healthcare --  The Professionalisation of Informal Carers? --  Reconfiguring the Clinical Workforce --  Challenging Identities: Working Together Differently in Primary Care --  Specialties in Transition: the Case of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery --  A New Push for Public Health? --  What Future for Health Care Assistants: High Road or Low Road? --  The Growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for the Future --  The Future of the General Practitioner --  The Future Healthcare Workforce in Pharmacy --  The Future Health Workforce: an Overview of Trends --  Sector Workforce Development Plan - Skills for Health --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  App. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1403919038 9781403919038 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003059598 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National health services--Personnel management.--Great Britain<br/>Medical personnel--Forecasting.--Great Britain<br/>Medical personnel--Government policy--Great Britain<br/>Health care reform--Great Britain<br/>Medical personnel--Government policy--Great Britain.<br/>Public health personnel<br/>Medical policy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA412.5.G7  / F88 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.10941