Complexity in Healthcare
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An independent commission, chaired by Baroness Finlay, has concluded that more of the most talented doctors must be encouraged to make careers as generalists rather than specialists to meet people’s changing health needs. The Commission was set up by the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Health Foundation to examine the state of general medicine. It had the following terms of reference:
Guiding patients through complexity: Modern medical generalism
Recent high profile scandals in the United Kingdom have highlighted the changing values by which the National Health Service is judged. 1 The public expects, and the government has promised to deliver, a health service that is ever safer, constantly up to date, and focused on patients' changing needs. Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.
Coping with complexity: educating for capability -- Fraser and Greenhalgh 323 (7316): 799 -- bmj.com