| Description | The Report of the Review commissioned by the Scottish Executive to undertake a fundamental review of the Scottish medical workforce |
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| Website Publication Date | July 03, 2002 |
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FUTURE PRACTICE
Proposals of an Advisory Group Commissioned by the Scottish Executive to Review the Scottish Medical Workforce
Chaired by
Professor John Temple
President
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
July 2002
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CONTENTS
Letter to the Minister
Commissioning the Review
Ten key messages...and a single conclusion
Summary of recommendations
1. Picturing the future
2. Demand for doctors
2.1 How doctors work
Doctors delivering service
Doctors as health professionals
Implications of how doctors work
More doctors required
2.2 Doctors in remote and rural areas
Doctors delivering services
Doctors as health professionals
A cross-cutting infrastructure to support planning
2.3 Understanding the demand for doctors
Current position
The effect of the changing role of doctors - qualitative demand
Expected pressures on numbers - quantitative demand
Forecasting demand
Summary - short, medium and long-term demand
3. Supply of doctors
3.1 Recruitment and retention
Managing recruitment and retention in the medical market
Presenting a positive market identity
Maximising retention
Measures to fill gaps
Specific remote and rural interests
Doctors from overseas and from elsewhere in the EEA
Doctors in academic and research medicine
3.2 Supply from the education sector
Student numbers and selection
Student funding
Delivering the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum
4. Planning the workforce - improving the process
Managing workforce planning for doctors
Information
Annex A Advisory Group Membership
Annex B Questionnaire
Annex C Focus Groups
THROUGHOUT THIS REPORT:
'Acute care' refers to acute care delivered in both primary and secondary care settings.
'Public' includes patients.
General practice is regarded as a specialty.
'Specialist' denotes a doctor who has completed training:
in the hospital or community health services that means he or she is listed on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council;
in general practice that means he or she holds a certificate of general practice training.
If you want to comment on any of the issues in Future Practice,
please contact Scott Miller at:
Scottish Executive Health Department
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
EDINBURGH
EH1 3DG
e-mail:
scott.miller@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
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