Strategic Clinical Manpower Planning in the Defence Medical Services Beyond Op HERRICK

David A Rew TD MA MB MChir FRCS
Consultant Surgeon, Southampton University Hospitals

Introduction
Time lends perspective to the view. Over 35 years, the Defence Medical Services (DMS) has been transformed from a Cold War–orientated, Rhine-centred Army Medical Service, to a much smaller and more agile tri-service organisation. The three single service health systems are broadly integrated functionally and with their NHS partner hospitals. The DMS has been highly innovative in the management of complex trauma, and by relentless focus on the quality of care for individual trauma cases, it has produced dramatic gains in the numbers and quality of survivorship.

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