This is a report of hearings held in Washington, D.C., on March 10 and 12, 1980, on the Health Professions Education and Distribution Act of 1980--three bills amending Public Health Service Act, Titles VII and VIII, and the national health Service Corps Program. S. 2375 would extend assistance programs for training health professionals and the…

Related to VT 007 894, "Report of the National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower, Volume I," this volume presents seven appendixes to that report. Appendix II concerns variation in per diem direct hospital expenses. Appendix III includes the reports of the panels on: (1) consumer role in the health care system, (2) education and supply, (3)…

The crisis in health care is one of the lack of delivery of health services to the consumer. This is, in part, secondary to the dearth and maldistribution of primary care physicians and the ineffective utilization of existing health manpower to deliver primary care. Physician's assistants and the expanded role of nurses in patient care as nurse…