Workforce priorities for resilience to future health shocks - and the workforce crisis

Kieran Walshe; Judith Smith; Tara Lamont; Alison Leary

doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-078997

Workforce priorities for resilience to future health shocks - and the workforce crisis

Kieran Walshe^*, Judith Smith, Tara Lamont, Alison Leary

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Key messages
The NHS makes a huge investment in its workforce, and this needs to be supported by much greater funding and capacity for interdisciplinary research

The current workforce crisis in the NHS in the UK and internationally should be seen as a further health shock, posing significant risks to the healthcare system and health outcomes

The covid-19 pandemic revealed a significant gap in the UK’s healthcare research infrastructure—that of the workforce, for which high quality evidence was too often lacking for the major decisions needed

NHS staff deserve their health, wellbeing, and careers to be underpinned and informed by the best available research evidence

Original language	English
Article number	e078997
Journal	British Medical Journal
Volume	387
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078997
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2024

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This article is part of a series on research priorities for health shock resilience, commissioned by the BMJ and the Health Foundation

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workforce
research priorities
healthcare workforce
health shocks

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Learning from the pandemic shift of outpatient services to a remote footing: a rapid evaluation study
Lewis, R., Smith, J., Davies, A., Evison, F., Pankhurst, T., Belasco, M. & Posaner, R., 16 Mar 2023, Birmingham: Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science & Innovation . 42 p.
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A longitudinal qualitative study of the UK general practice workforce experience of COVID-19
Burn, E., Fisher, R., Locock, L. & Smith, J., 4 Aug 2022, In: Primary Health Care Research & Development. 23, p. 1-7 e45.
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Practising in a pandemic: a real time study of primary care practitioners' experience of working through the first year of COVID-19
Burn, E., Smith, J., Fisher, R., Locock, L. & Shires, K., 6 Oct 2022, In: Frontiers in Sociology. 7, 11 p., 959222.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care Practitioners: Transformation, Upheaval and Uncertainty
Burn, E., Locock, L., Fisher, R. & Smith, J., 9 Nov 2021, Organising Care in a Time of Covid-19: Implications for Leadership, Governance and Policy. Waring, J., Denis, J.-L., Pedersen, A. R. & Tenbensel, T. (eds.). p. 179-201 (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare).
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Workforce priorities for resilience to future health shocks - and the workforce crisis

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Learning from the pandemic shift of outpatient services to a remote footing: a rapid evaluation study

A longitudinal qualitative study of the UK general practice workforce experience of COVID-19

Practising in a pandemic: a real time study of primary care practitioners' experience of working through the first year of COVID-19

The Impact of COVID-19 on Primary Care Practitioners: Transformation, Upheaval and Uncertainty

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