BMJ 1995;311:1574 (9 December)

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Proposals do not refer to need for consultant provided service

EDITOR,--Hugh M Mather and Robert S Elkeles report the outcome of a questionnaire survey of the attitudes of consultant physicians in North West and South West Thames regions to the Calman proposals.1 They state that the specialist training reforms demand a change to a "consultant provided service." Nowhere in either the chief medical officer's report Hospital Doctors: Training for the Future2 or the subsequent documentation is there any reference to the need for a consultant provided service. Indeed, the only specific reference in the report to changes in medical staffing policies is to the likelihood "that there will be an increase in the proportion of care provided by the consultant grade and a greater demand for consultant posts within the NHS."

It should be emphasised that one of the first results of the Calman reforms is likely to be an increase in middle grade staff. This will happen as resources . . . [Full text of this article]


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Attitudes of consultant physicians to the Calman proposals: a questionnaire survey
Hugh M Mather and Robert S Elkeles
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