Health Management and Policy Alert

Peak leaving?: a spotlight on nurse leaver rates in the UK

Nuffield Trust -
Nursing is the largest profession in the NHS, but it suffers from substantial staffing shortages. This analysis reflects on the rate at which the health service is losing nurses, and considers the reasons why.

• Nuffield Trust - publications

Health and wellbeing communications guide

NHS Employers - 

This guide provides practical tools that will help NHS health and wellbeing and staff experience leads deliver successful campaigns and initiatives.

• Guide

Internationally trained professionals joining the NMC register: 1 April 2021–31 March 2022

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - 

This analysis reveals that the profile of international professionals registered in 2021–2022 is very different from UK joiners and the register they joined. They’re more likely to be men and they’re much more likely to be ethnically diverse. The NMC is calling on health and care employers to fully support internationally trained professionals into UK practice – and join with UK trained nurses and midwives to create the most inclusive environment possible.

• Analysis
• Press release

Rising living costs: the impact on NHS, staff and patients

NHS Providers - 

This survey of NHS trusts leaders looks at the impact rising living costs are having on the health service, staff and patients.

• Briefing
• Press release

Employing workers overseas: key employment related considerations

NHS Employers - 
As the working landscape has altered due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more employees are now requesting to work flexibly and from agile locations. This may extend to employees choosing to move overseas and work remotely if their role permits this. This briefing was commissioned in response to questions raised from NHS workforce leaders about the legalities and practicalities of overseas remote working arrangements.

• Briefing
• NHS Employers - news

Whistleblowing disclosures report 2022: healthcare professional regulators

Nursing & Midwifery Council -
This report is part of a coordinated effort with seven other regulators to address serious issues that health and care professionals in the UK have raised. The most common themes of the disclosures this year related to patient safety and care; leadership and management; health and safety; and behaviour.

• Report
• Nursing & Midwifery Council - press release

New horizons: what can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries?

Nuffield Trust -
This report finds that perceptions of care work as low skilled continue to persist, despite the pandemic highlighting just how vital care workers are. In recent years there has been increased debate around the ‘professionalisation’ of this staff group, which generally refers to the creation of a statutory register of staff and their professional regulation. This report reviews what the evidence shows about the professionalisation of care workers in other countries.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - publications

Workload issues affecting GP trainees’ plans for their future careers

The King's Fund - 

For the fifth time since 2016, The King’s Fund has surveyed GP trainees on their plans for their own careers and on the future of general practice more generally. Each time we ask questions about trainees’ intended future working patterns, one year, five years and ten years after completing their qualifications. This year’s survey of GP trainees shows excessive workload and intensity is having a significant impact on how trainees plan to work in future.

• Blog

Health and care workforce in Europe: time to act

World Health Organization. European Region - 

All countries of the WHO European Region currently face severe challenges related to the health and care workforce (‎HCWF)‎. This report focuses on identifying effective policy and planning responses to these HCWF challenges across the Region. The report presents an overview of the HCWF situation in the Region (‎focusing on medical doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists, for whom data are available)‎and identifies relevant policy options, their expected benefits and potential facilitators or barriers to successful implementation. Examples of sound evidence-informed practices in countries are also provided.

• Report
• Press release

 

Public perceptions of health and social care: what the new government should know

The Health Foundation -
This report highlights findings from a survey of 2,068 people aged 16 years and older in the UK. It finds that the public is pessimistic about the state of the NHS. The majority (55 per cent) think the general standard of care has got worse in the past 12 months. This is echoed by concerns about social care with the majority of respondents (56 per cent) saying that standards have got worse over the past 12 months. It also finds that the public are concerned about the impacts of rising costs of living on the nation’s health. 57 per cent think rising living costs are a high or very high threat to the health of UK citizens and 72 per cent believe overall health and wellbeing has declined in the past 12 months.

• Report
• The Health Foundation - press release