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Medical Workforce Management

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Doctors are leaders of healthcare teams and their leadership inpacts on the performance and outcomes of the team. They are highly trained and are the most expensive labour category in healthcare. In addition they control a large part of healthcare expenditure with their decision making including admitting and discharging decisions, treatment decisions including procedures, medications and devices as well as decisions about the setting of care. It is critical therefore that health services contract or employ well trained doctors who are equipped to provide high quality care and ensure their work environment supports their education, training, continued professional development and wellbeing. This chapter provides the reader with basic information on the key aspects of medical workforce management in a hospital setting.

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    Anjali Dhulia (Director of Medical Services)

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  1. Group Chief Medical Officer, St Vincent’s Health Australia, Clinical Professor, Monash University, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Erwin Loh

  2. Founding Director, Centre for Health Leadership, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Paul W. Long

  3. Emeritus Professor, Warwick Medical School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK

    Peter Spurgeon

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Dhulia, A. (2019). Medical Workforce Management. In: Loh, E., Long, P., Spurgeon, P. (eds) Textbook of Medical Administration and Leadership. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5454-9_12

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