This is the executive summary of a research summary which examines a key aspect of NHS staffing: that of the loss of experience from health services as older staff, who are valuable and much needed, leave early in ever-increasing numbers. With a workforce where about 150,000 of the one million ...
The specific dynamics of the London health care labour market, and the challenges they create for recruitment and retention, were highlighted in the 2003 King's Fund report 'In Capital Health?'. In the 18 months since, a number of important and far reaching changes have been initiated across the NHS. This ...
There are significant recruitment and retention problems in nursing in the NHS. Nurses are leaving the NHS at a faster rate than they are being recruited. A review of the existing literature and research undertaken over the last 15 years has highlighted a number of apparently consistent themes in barriers ...
This research summary, based on a review of the literature and a series of focus groups with NHS staff, shows that while it is difficult to measure how people feel about their work, there is much to suggest that morale and motivation of the NHS workforce are low. It identifies ...
Improving health and social care is a political priority in the United Kingdom. Boosting the number of health care workers and making better use of their skills are central objectives of the Government's plans for reform. However, recruitment and retention are major problems for the NHS, particularly in inner cities ...
This new policy paper, which follows up an interim report published in 2002, aims to take a fresh look at the issues facing planners, policy makers and managers responsible for maintaining and developing the health care workforces in London, and to tease out some of the opportunities, as well as ...
This research summary examines a key aspect of NHS staffing: that of the loss of experience from health services as older staff, who are valuable and much needed, leave early in ever-increasing numbers. With a workforce where about 150,000 of the one million employed are aged 50 or over, and ...
This working paper examines the London labour market for health care staff. The study was conducted against the background of the early implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and focuses on labour supply and on the extent to which planned or predicted changes in the profile ...
Because of the ever increasing difficulty of obtaining and retaining skilled catering staff, particularly in the larger cities and comparatively remote country districts, this report looks at the ways in which better use of the few skilled staff available could be achieved by the introduction of automation and mechanisation of ...