The study highlights significant regional disparities in anaesthetic staffing in England and Wales, suggesting a need for modified central policy and better manpower planning.
Regional disparities in anaesthetic staffing may inform workforce planning; cross-sectional data leaves open effects on outcomes.
The numbers of anaesthetists and of surgeons in the English Health Regions and in Wales as at September 1978, are given in whole-time equivalents per 100,000 of population. All Regional figures are presented as percentages of the national average so that comparisons between Regions can be made. Marked inter-Regional differences are shown, both in the numbers of anaesthetists per unit of population and in the ratios of surgeons to anaesthetists. The pattern argues for a modification in central policy and for a greater involvement of anaesthetists in future manpower planning than appears to have been the case in the past.
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