title: Threats to academic neurosurgery in the United Kingdom: a personal view.
abstract: Money, or lack of it, is but one, albeit very important, threat to academic neurosurgery. This review has rambled over some of the other minefields and self-inflicted hurdles. The path of academic progress is long and tortuous. Time has to be found in neurosurgery to examine critically the opportunities and threats posed by a changing world to our goals of establishing standards of patient care, research, and the flexible training of the next generation.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Pickard
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002202:Capital Financing; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce