Identification of key factors that allied health considers when making resource allocation decisions is important to provide support to answer difficult questions that policy-makers, managers and service providers often face. Allied health contains several professional groups such as dietetics, medical radiation practitioners, occupational therapist, optometrists, and psychologists. Unlike medical and nursing, allied health is usually organized in discipline-specific departments and assign budgets within these to provide services to a variety of clinical areas.
However, there is less evidence for how managers of allied health allocate the resources, which factors they consider when making these decisions, and the sources of information they trust. The study which was interested in the views of the managers of allied health making resource allocation decisions included managers of allied…
