Manpower Services Commission

This series of texts is a result of an initiative by the Committee of Heads of Polytechnic Chemistry Departments in the United Kingdom, A project team based at Thames Polytechnic using funds available from the Manpower Services Commission Open Tech Project has organised and managed the development of the material suitable for use by Distance Learners . The contents of the various units have been identified, planned and written almost exclusively by groups of polytechnic staff, who are both expert in the subject area and are currently teaching in analytical chemistry. 

Research carried out by Transform/Sheffield City Polytechnic and sponsored by The Manpower Services Commission. Quoted with permission. 

Leary, M., Boydell, T., van Boeschoten, M. and Carlisle, J. (1986). The Qualities of Managing. Report on a Project carried out by TRANSFORM Individual and Organisational Development Consultants Ltd and Sheffield City Polytechnic. Manpower Services Commission. 

TVEI Unit Technology for TVEI London, Manpower Services Commission. 1988. 

The ability to perform the activities within an occupation or function to the standards expected In employment (Manpower Services Commission 1991). 

National Economic Development Council/Manpower Services Commission (1984), Competence and Competition Training and Education in the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States and Japan (London National Economic Development Council/Manpower Services Commission). 

USCSC, 1972. Civil Service Commission. Manpower Statistics Division. Occupations of Federal White-Collar Workers. October 31,1969 and 1970. Pamphlet SM 56-09. 

By the early 1970s, debates over pharmacy manpower, pharmacists roles, and pharmacy education were heightened. In 1972, AACP President Arthur Schwarting recommended the formation of a Commission on Pharmacy to study the scope of pharmacy services in health care and to project the educational requirements needed to train pharmacists to provide these services. The commission was chaired by John S. Millis, President of the National Fund for Medical Education. The Millis Commission s report, Pharmacists for the Future, was published in 1975. The report contained 14 recommendations for pharmacy practice and education. Among these were continued movement of pharmacy as a knowledge-based clinical profession, increased development of clinical practice sites for pharmacy school faculty, and development of a national board licensing exam for pharmacists. 

A manpower cost estimate for commissioning staff is a usual element of the overall project costing for tender or budget purposes. It takes lull account of all disciplines involved in commissioning, the hours including overtime that they may work, the back-up services that they need and the site allowances, travel and acconunodation costs which they will be paid, previous experience of similar plants is valuable for diis puipose. Such information may be available as a computerized database. 

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