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Thanks for that will have a look and see what I can find re this (as long as my PC dosent crash again, due to myself mucking around with the registry!!) We have done a number of time and motion studies (werent called this of course!) an interesting outcome was we didnt have the time to complete these acurately (especailly our crisis team) however less busy centres did, the results showed we we not as busy as the other centres, resulting in funding being reduced to us and boosted to quieter centres, an inherant flaw, from what I can see!!

Thanks for that I will see what I can find

Hi there I work in adult community mental health, (10 years post grad, NZ) lately we have been losing staff by the truck load, due to a number of issues, mainly high caseloads, lack of staff poor Dr cover etc I was asked to find a tool to measure the acuity of a patient,eg how much work one pt was compared to another I dont feel this is the sum total of the problem , however we have a culture of measuring stress by how big your caseload is, so Im trying to prove a caseload of 3 difficult pts is the same as a caseload 30 easy pts hope this makes some sense Funny Im also a bit stressed!!