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Casualty Staffing before Platt

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The most influential report into casualty or accident and emergency (A&E) services was the Standing Medical Advisory Committee Report on Accident and Emergency Services chaired by Sir Harry Platt and published in 1962.1,a This was a major milestone in the history of A&E and this chapter aims to describe medical staffing of casualty departments between the start of the NHS and that report.

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    Henry Guly (Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine)

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Guly, H. (2005). Casualty Staffing before Platt. In: A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948–2004. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000742_1

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