1. The rate of increase in paediatric medical staff since 1977 does not appear to have kept pace with the increase in patient activities in the various branches of the discipline
2. There are almost no doctors in the specialty below the grade of consultant who can provide acute care in departments across the years. In 1989 only 15 associate specialists in paediatrics were recorded in England in the 30th September census
3. Report of the 1990 Bntish l'aediatric Association manpower census;British Paediatric Association,1991
4. Patterns of hospital medical staffing-paediatrtcs. British Postgraduate Medical Federation;Dowie, R.,1991
5. latterns of hospital medical staffing-overview. British Postgraduate Medical Federation;Dowie, R.,1992