Our latest paper from the research has been published! Where do they come from and where do they go: Understanding the relationship between deprivation and the geographical journeys of trainee doctors in England is our analysis of an extract from the UKMED database, examining medical student and doctor distribution in order to contribute to understanding the distribution of health and health service inequalities. We used a modelling approach to understand characteristics of medical students, medical schools and foundation schools to interpret and identify the relationship between geographic distribution and socio-economic deprivation. While there is greater diversity of the future workforce in terms of gender and ethnicity, there is evidence that fewer students from more deprived backgrounds are attending medical schools. These finding have implications for the future workforce, and are key to overcoming workforce issues in health service provision.
Read the paper in full, openly accessible in the journal PloS One.