Letter: Advertising consultant posts.

Changes in recruitment to public health consultant posts and hospital consultant posts in England: potential impact on the sustainability of the Public Health system.

BACKGROUND The UK government has proposed major changes to the Public Health system in England. This study aims quantify increasing anecdotal concern that the number of Public Health consultant posts advertised has plummeted since the publication of these plans. METHODS The archives of BMJ careers were interrogated for hospital and Public Health consultant posts advertised October 2008 and Ma...

Letter: Effects of advertising on cigarette and alcoholic beverage consumption.

Sustaining innovation in the health care workforce: A case study of community nurse consultant posts in England

BACKGROUND Recruiting, retaining and meeting increasing demand for experienced, qualified nurses is an issue of concern for all health care systems. The UK has been creating clinical career structures for nurses that include innovative posts known as nurse consultants. While the numbers overall appear to have grown over the last eleven years, there is evidence that in some specialities and regi...

The consultant as advocate.

Another second opinion consultation, you whisper to yourself as you prepare to greet the young patient who is awaiting your initial evaluation. Ben Stevenson was referred by a member of your study club. You recall reviewing this 11-year-old boy's radiographs early this morning. The film shows approximately 50% root development of the succedaneous teeth with immobile deciduous canines and molars...

Consultant surgeons and vasectomy.

In late 1971 410 consultant general surgeons and urologists-74% of a national random sample-responded to a postal survey about vasectomy. Probably about 50,000 vasectomies were performed by surgeons in England and Wales in 1970. The service was largely a private one: 60% of consultants' hospital vasectomies were not done under the National Health Service, and, in addition, 26% of the consultant...