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Running out of Doctors

4 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The British Medical Association claims to have uncovered department of health data that shows that there was a shortfall of 3,000 junior doctors at the end of 2008.  Two factors are being blamed for this, changes to immigration legislation that prevents people from outside the EU coming to train as doctors and also the European […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, capacity, capacity planning, medicine, recruitment

Is Bigger Better?

4 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

West Yorkshire council may start sharing services in a bid to cut costs.  Councillor Andrew Carter who is the Conservative deputy leader of Leeds City council has suggested that the councils of Leeds, Calderdale, Bradford, Kirklees and Wakefield could share services such as HR and payroll. There may be efficiencies to be had, but I […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, economies of scale, local government, shared services

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