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 those in training.
- Without the flexibility required for trainee doctors to manage family life, the unintended consequences range from burnout to leaving the profession entirely.
- In particular, gendered experiences make impact on medical training pathways and subsequently on recruitment and retention.
- This inflexibility has implications for recruitment and retention, but also equality, diversity and inclusion within the medical profession.