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This paper arises from the ongoing challenges for rural communities and their service provider managers and planners of how to provide health workforce. The issues that are discussed here mainly came to the surface due to a number of studies in rural Scotland where communities were protesting or ‘unhappy’ as they perceived their local health services to decrease (Thomson et al. 2008; Farmer et al. 2010). This was often, for health care managers, a situation where they were having to centralise services due to new policies and recommendations regarding the need for staff to work in teams so that they could maintain their skills and to allow them time off for continuing professional development and holidays. In these scenarios, communities often saw health managers as ‘the bad guys’ whose managerial stance meant they didn’t understand the needs and wants of local communities – which were mainly around the security of having locally-based health professionals (Farmer et al. 2012).
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Farmer, J., Nimegeer, A. (2014). Rural Appropriate Services Designed by Informed Communities. In: Dünkel, F., Herbst, M., Schlegel, T. (eds) Think Rural!. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03931-8_2
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