Staff burnout: MPs demand “total overhaul” of NHS workforce planning

What do NHS staff think about the NHS?

Workforce Demand Study

The dietetics profession faces many workforce challenges and opportunities to ensure that registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) are at the forefront of health andnutrition. The professionmust prepare for newpublic priorities, changes in population, and the restructuring of how people learn andwork, as well as new advances in science and technology. In September...

Workforce planning and flexible working in the NHS of the future.

There is an increasingly urgent need to review working patterns and future workforce planning now that women make up 42% of all doctors – 28% of hospital consultants and 47% of GPs. 1 Within a few years, predicted to be between 2017 and 2022, the majority of the medical workforce will be female. 2 Already in 2010 there were 46% more female foundation year one (F1) doctors than male. 2 The age d...

Running out of staff for the NHS.

The need for an NHS Staff College.

‘A recognized but extremely rare complication results in an avoidable patient fatality. A structured debrief surfaces inadequate team safety training. Of the seven consultants in the specialty, five recognize the need for standardizing technique and implementing team training. Two of the consultants do not, and claim that the complication is just one of those things.’ (Author’s experiences of a...