title: Skill mix review: a well used term to facilitate safe, flexible, effective care delivery or a means of compromising perioperative professionalism?
abstract: The urgent need for safe and cost effective care is paramount in these challenging times given the stated deficit of 20 billion pounds real terms investment over the next three years (DH 2010).
authors.affiliation: president@afpp.org.uk
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Coates
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000592:standards