Sharing our findings: the relevance for rheumatology
We were delighted to be invited to the North West Rheumatology Club winter meeting to share our research findings. Speaking with different specialties – including resident doctors, SAS and LED colleagues, and consultant specialists – is a great way to think about how we can all affect the future of the medical workforce in a […]
The future of the surgical workforce
PI Liz Brewster attended the 27th AUGIS (Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland) Annual Scientific Meeting at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to present some of our findings about the surgical workforce in the final Plenary session. It was great to share action-focused insights with a receptive audience.
Sharing our research on gender and workforce in the Australian context
Following on from our contribution to the Special Issue: The workforce crisis in healthcare: moving the debate to bridge evidence and policy for The International Journal of Health Planning and Management with our paper, Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: A qualitative study, the project PI was invited to contribute to an international round table with […]
Looking at doctors’ careers over time – sharing our findings
Our qualitative interviews with 100 doctors in our case study sites are now complete, and we have been sharing the learning with colleagues at national and international conferences. In June, PI Liz Brewster was invited to join the British Academy conference Post-crisis professionalism at the University of Birmingham, with an international audience. She spoke on […]
What does history have to offer workforce planning?
Michael Lambert from the MapDoc team has been out and about sharing some of the findings from our historical and policy archives research thread. First, he presented the paper: ‘Planning by numbers? A history of clinical workforce policies in the NHS, 1948-1997’ at the Health Policy and Politics Network Annual Conference, Institute for Health Policy […]
MapDoc team contribute evidence to NHS Workforce Planning Modelling inquiry
NHS England published its Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) in June 2023. In May 2024, the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into NHS England’s modelling for the Long-Term Workforce Plan published its written evidence ahead of an inquiry into the underpinning assumptions around the modelling. Read the MapDoc team’s contribution to this inquiry.
Update: recruitment milestone achieved!
Team MapDoc are celebrating as we reach our milestone of recruiting 100 doctors for interviews across our three case study sites. We are now closed for recruitment, and thank everyone who has participated in an interview and shared their story of medical training.
New publication: Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS
Our contribution to the Special Issue: The workforce crisis in healthcare: moving the debate to bridge evidence and policy for The International Journal of Health Planning and Management is now available to access. Our paper, Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: A qualitative study highlights that: Medical training pathways can be experienced as inflexible by […]
Northern case study – recruitment update
Work is well underway at our third case study site, and we now have permissions in place to recruit doctors from: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust […]
Join the collaboration café
Collaboration is a big part of our partnerships across Lancashire and South Cumbria, and we are delighted to be invited give an outline of our research to date with the Lancaster University Collaboration Café on December 6 2023 at 9am in Health Innovation One. Please join if you can!