General Introduction: “Chamelion like” England

1 General Introduction

Parts of this introduction (see footnotes) have previously been published in Trends in Neu‑ rosciences (Meredith et al., 2012). The introductions of chapter 3 and 6 are based on the following text.

1 1 General introduction

Chapter General introduction Marjon

General surgical workload in England and Wales.

An attempt was made to measure the workload of a typical general surgical firm (two part time consultants and their junior staff) serving a population of 100 000 in England and Wales. This provides a background against which to plan curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as being a guide to the experience that a surgical trainee should get in a suitable training post. Th...

Increases in general practice workload in England

2270 www.thelancet.com Vol 387 June 4, 2016 Primary care services form the backbone of health care in most high-income countries. Yet, there are growing concerns about the eff ects that numerous changes in the content and delivery of primary care have had on the workload of primary care practitioners. In a retrospective analysis in The Lancet, F D Richard Hobbs and colleagues investigated the d...