title: Workforce planning. Your country needs you.
abstract: Shortage of nurses is a long-standing problem which was the subject of official inquiries long before the launch of the NHS. There has been persistent inertia about acting on the recommendations of these reports. Despite a continuing increase in activity rates, the number of nurses in the NHS has remained largely static for a decade. Another 5,000 will be needed by 2015. The UK should use its capacity for centralised planning to tackle the issue.
authors: Management and Social Sciences Department Queens Margaret College, Edinburgh.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Buchan
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce; D016526:Workload