Category: Research

The GMC, HEE, DOH (Northern Ireland), NHS Education for Scotland and Health Education and Improvement Wales have published the results of a survey sent to 90,601 doctors who practised in the UK between 3 months and 15 years ago, but are no longer, for reasons other than being more than …

Behind the scenes government committees have been busy gathering evidence from stakeholders to produce the 4 following reports that will greatly influence our working lives: Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care. Second House of Commons Report Health is everyone’s business. Presented to Parliament on behalf of …

The long awaited NHS People Plan for 2020/21 has been published, and updated in the last week, and as you might expect, contains many references to Covid 19. The subtitle for this report is “action for us all” and there is something we will all have to do: a health …

The coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has led to extraordinary measures being undertaken to enable NHS frontline staff to meet clinical demand in a time of staff shortages due to illness or caring responsibilities. This includes recalling retired clinical staff to duty and repurposing buildings across the UK as hospitals. Another source …

There is never a good time for a pandemic, but Covid 19 has kicked doctors while we were down. Between 50% 1 and 80% 2 of us were already burnt out. We went on strike, we left traditional training routes, we retired early and now we are asked and volunteering …

The GMC “Caring for doctors, caring for patients” report has been published today. This prompt review, only conceived in 2018, is structured around an “ABC of doctors’ needs”; Autonomy; Belonging and Competence. The report initially describes the strain on doctors and what the consequences are and goes on to use …

The “caring for the mental health of the medical workforce report” describes the quantitative results of a survey of doctors and medical students in October 2018. The participants were self-selecting, but over 4,300 people responded, including 1,400 medical students.   The survey used the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory and 80% of …

Often removed from their previous support networks, forming identities and dealing with change, university students continue to be a group where mental wellbeing monitoring and interventions are needed. This is a large scale study of the prevalence of mental health, in self-selecting students, conducted by a private healthcare team of …

Further evidence that the health and wellbeing of NHS staff must be a priority for NHS organisations if they want anyone to join their workforce, stay, or excel. This survey has been conducted every year since 2003, although not all of the 303 organisations that completed this year’s survey will …