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Calculating a District's Psychiatric Manpower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. P. Watson
J. P. Watson*
Affiliation:
United Medical and Dental Schools, Guy's Hospital, London SE1
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The possibility that estimates of psychiatric manpower needs could be informed by knowledge of what doctors do and should do with their time was discussed in a previous paper. In this paper, we outline a procedure for calculating the psychiatric manpower needs of a Health District. The basic assumption is that the numbers of psychiatrists in a District ought to be sufficient to do the work that needs to be done. We suggest that this work should be assessed in terms of the amounts of doctor time required for specified activities.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 12 , December 1986 , pp. 334 - 337
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

References

1. Watson, J. P. (1985) Psychiatric manpower and the work of the consultant. Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 9, 170–173.Google Scholar
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