Clinical management. Where medicine meets management. Reduced circumstances.
The development of effective clinical teams is vital to the delivery of quality clinical care and reducing clinical errors. Implementation of the European working-time directive will disrupt team dynamics and reduce the training opportunities for junior doctors. Funding is needed to increase further the number of doctors if the directive is not to be at the expense of patient care.
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital, London.
Majid
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Shabbir
Soma
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Banerjee
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