Coming up soon! MapDoc team speaking at national events
As we come to the end of the MapDoc project, we’re working hard to share our findings with relevant audiences. In April, we’ll be at the Society for Education in Anaesthesia (SEAUK) annual scientific meeting in Manchester, talking about How do we ‘level up’ our underdoctored areas? In May, we’re contributing to an online event […]
Reviewing postgraduate medical training
NHS National Medical Director Professor Sir Steven Powis and Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty are to lead a review to make postgraduate medical training the ‘best in the world’ – and the Mapping Doctors team are ready and willing to support this aim. Since 2022, we’ve been working with resident doctors, SAS and […]
Mapping Doctors: the podcast
Want to know more about our key findings? Join us for the first mini-series of our Mapping Doctors podcast. Each episode takes on one of the key questions of the research, unpicking some of the issues around workforce distribution, and thinking about what key messages we’ve found that are relevant for doctors, NHS organisations, the […]
Breaking boundaries in the history of medicine
The Mapping Doctors team takes an interdisciplinary approach to the issues around medical training, and recently our chief historian and co-I Michael Lambert was invited to share our findings and approach as part of a prestigious Royal Society of Medicine event. In the January 2025 Online Symposium, Potpourri of breaking boundaries in the history of […]
Sharing our findings: the relevance for rheumatology
We were delighted to be invited to the North West Rheumatology Club winter meeting to share our research findings. Speaking with different specialties – including resident doctors, SAS and LED colleagues, and consultant specialists – is a great way to think about how we can all affect the future of the medical workforce in a […]
The future of the surgical workforce
PI Liz Brewster attended the 27th AUGIS (Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland) Annual Scientific Meeting at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester to present some of our findings about the surgical workforce in the final Plenary session. It was great to share action-focused insights with a receptive audience.
Sharing our research on gender and workforce in the Australian context
Following on from 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 with our paper, Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: A qualitative study, the project PI was invited to contribute to an international round table with […]
Looking at doctors’ careers over time – sharing our findings
Our qualitative interviews with 100 doctors in our case study sites are now complete, and we have been sharing the learning with colleagues at national and international conferences. In June, PI Liz Brewster was invited to join the British Academy conference Post-crisis professionalism at the University of Birmingham, with an international audience. She spoke on […]
What does history have to offer workforce planning?
Michael Lambert from the MapDoc team has been out and about sharing some of the findings from our historical and policy archives research thread. First, he presented the paper: ‘Planning by numbers? A history of clinical workforce policies in the NHS, 1948-1997’ at the Health Policy and Politics Network Annual Conference, Institute for Health Policy […]
MapDoc team contribute evidence to NHS Workforce Planning Modelling inquiry
NHS England published its Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) in June 2023. In May 2024, the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into NHS England’s modelling for the Long-Term Workforce Plan published its written evidence ahead of an inquiry into the underpinning assumptions around the modelling. Read the MapDoc team’s contribution to this inquiry.