Open AccessHubs and spokes or clinical networks?
Author(s) -
PV Dyer
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
morecambe bay medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2634-0631
pISSN - 1466-707X
DOI - 10.48037/mbmj.v4i1.721
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , service (business) , unit (ring theory) , medicine , service delivery framework , medical emergency , geography , psychology , business , archaeology , mathematics education , marketing
In 1998, the consultants in oral and maxillofacial surgery and orthodontics decided to consolidate their respective department to establish the Maxillofacial Unit. This coincided with the formation of the new Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust incorporating the acute hospitals in Lancaster, Barrow and Kendal and was to a large extent a natural development of the existing service delivery of the specialities at all three sites. In this article the establishment of the oral and maxillofacial surgery service in Morecambe Bay will be discussed and presented in the context of a number of recent reports which have tried to predict how surgical and medical service will develop in the acute sector.