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**Changes, challenges and choices for the primary health care workforce: looking to the future** **Aims.** The main aim of this paper is to draw attention to problems facing the primary health care workforce in terms of demand for treatment of minor illness over the next two decades. These predictions have implications for the community nursing workforce in particular and the flexibility of primary health care teams in general. **Background.** Care delivered in the primary care sector influences, and is influenced by, the characteristics of the health care workforce. These characteristics fall into two main groups: firstly, the shape of the present medical and nursing workforce and manpower trends; and secondly, the changes in doctors’ and nurses’ workloads. **Design.** This paper draws on two studies, both commissioned by the Department of Health; the first study focusing on skill mix and delegation in primary health care teams and the second addressing the implications of skill mix for medical workforce scenarios in the changing policy environment. **Findings.** From the first study, general practitioners across ten general practices were prepared to delegate at least one topic f

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Author

Susan Jenkins-Clarke; Roy Carr-Hill

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0309-2402)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)