Lifelong learning in health care: who will pay?

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Abstract
As the rhetoric of recent decades concerning lifelong learning is gradually translated into practice, we may be seeing the evolution of a learning society in Britain. This long debated concept is coming to fruition in attempts to identify mechanisms and strategies that promote its implementation. For healthcare professionals this becomes even more important because we are dealing directly with individuals' physical and psychosocial health. While both formal and nonformal learning costs money, non-learning is more costly in terms of skill deficit to the individual and to society, as is the current experience within nursing.

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