A 2003 survey of US medical schools showed that for PBL schools, almost one-half allocated a mere 10% or less of staff-student contact hours for PBL [ 11], showing that PBL was mostly hybridized with other curricular inputs.
Now it is busy fighting fires again, many of them in eastern Europe, so there is far less talk of staff cuts.
More room for improvement seems to exist for the socio-economic and planning aspects of care and less for staff skills and attitudes and appropriateness of provided services.
According to the SF Public Defender's office, half of all defender's offices are operating with a quarter or less of the staff they should have to handle their caseloads.
It also plans to make immediate improvements in nurse staffing in health facilities falling below an identified cut-off point (a WISN ratio of 0.6 or less, meaning 60% or less of required staffing).
Studies suggest that less than 50% of staff time is spent with patients [ 48], and that RNs spend less than 40% of their time with patients [ 49].
Moore was subsequently replaced, he alleged, by a less experienced member of staff.
The Government Accountability Office said that as of mid-September, 17 of the 32 teams created around the country had less than 50percentt of staff in place and 46percentt of eligible service members had not been assigned to a unit.
Welcoming the statutory duty of candour and penalties for executives who withheld important information, Jordan said questions remained "as to what will happen to less senior members of staff who are found to withhold information or cover up inexcusable mistakes".
Even LDCs, where 60% of Australian children attend (DEEWR, 2011c), have less than 10% of staff holding a degree.
A spokesman for the authority added: "At the moment there are just under 80 people who are looking at a loss of more than £7,000 a year, representing less than 0.7% of staff affected by these changes.
