title: Multi-skilled health carers: nature, purpose and implications.
abstract: Multi-skilling has been the most enduring element of patient-focused care in the UK. A recent report from the Manchester University Health Service Management Unit (HSMU) extended the multi-skilling debate and offered a framework for changing National Health Service workforce policy along multi-skilling lines. Examines the main HSMU issues in the light of broader empirical and other evidence. Assesses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to multi-skilling. Concludes that multi-skilling protagonists still face a number of challenges.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hurst
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom