Our latest paper from the research has been published! Medical training pathways and underdoctored areas: a qualitative study of doctors working in areas that struggle to recruit and retain represents a real cross-disciplinary insight into how medical training pathways led doctors to work in underdoctored areas. We highlight how medical workforce recruitment is an ongoing crisis, affecting access to healthcare, which is inequitably distributed leading to some areas being ‘underdoctored’. We explore how doctors come to these areas, why they stay and what impacted their choices, which means we can understand why doctors work in underdoctored areas. These findings are is key to overcoming workforce issues, and our findings have implications for improving recruitment and retention and health service provision.
Read the paper in full, openly accessible in the journal Health and Place.