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B Jennett. 1979-05-12. How many specialists?. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(79)92784-3
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A workforce development confederation facing a shortage of 2,000 clinical staff by 2004 has initiated a programme to train assistant practitioners. The programme is aimed at drawing workers into the NHS who have some care experience but not the educational requirements for traditional professional courses. The project, which involves 14 organisations across health and social care, has attracted 216 entrants. The course takes two years full time, or three years part time.
The need to ensure adequate numbers of motivated health professionals is at the forefront of the modernisation of the UK NHS. The aim of this paper is to assess current understanding of the labour supply behaviour of nurses, and to propose an agenda for further research. In particular, the paper reviews American and British economics literature that focuses on empirical econometric studies based on the classical static labour supply model. American research could be classified into first generation, second generation and recent empirical evidence. Advances in methods mirror those in the general labour economics literature, and include the use of limited dependent variable models and the treatment of sample selection issues. However, there is considerable variation in results, which depends on the methods used, particularly on the effect of wages. Only one study was found that used UK data, although other studies examined the determinants of turnover, quit rates and job satisfaction. The agenda for further empirical research includes the analysis of discontinuities in the labour supply function, the relative importance of pecuniary and non-pecuniary job characteristics, and the application of dynamic and family labour supply models to nursing research. Such research is crucial to the development of evidence-based policies.