PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrew Goddard
TI  - Ensuring a general medicine workforce for the future
AID  - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-1-40
DP  - 2016 Feb 01
TA  - Future Hospital Journal
PG  - 40--44
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/1/40.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/1/40.full
SO  - Future Hosp J2016 Feb 01; 3
AB  - The acute hospital system in the NHS is in crisis, with the rising demands of treating elderly comorbid patients and limited financial and workforce resources. An increase in the workforce trained in and delivering general medical services seven days per week has been proposed as a solution to this crisis. The current trainee and consultant workforce is unable to provide this increase because of imbalances between training and service delivery, the different demands of large and small hospitals and the need to simultaneously provide high-quality specialised services. The demographics of the NHS medical workforce are also changing, which will limit expansion. It is very unlikely that a generalist workforce can be achieved in less than 10 years without a clear governmental strategy and increased staffing levels, both of which seem unlikely at present.