Publications from this project are openly available, and collated here.
| Understanding why doctors stay as well as why they leave is vitally important. In this paper we explore what our data can tell us about retention in socioeconomically deprived areas.
Brewster, L, Mumford, C, Patel, T, Chekar, CK, Lambert, M, Shelton, C, & Lawson, E (2025) Retaining doctors in organisations in socioeconomically deprived areas in England: a qualitative study. BMJ Open;15:e100694. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100694 |
| In this paper, we share insights about how doctors’ training is the least flexible when flexibility is the most needed, and the impact this has on recruitment, retention and working.
Chekar, CK, Brewster, L, Lambert, M, Mathiya, T (2024), Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: a qualitative study. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 740-756. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3784 |
| Luigi Sedda, from the original project team, also wrote a paper from the UKMED data that outlines important learning about the distances travelled by medical students and doctors in their training.
Hitchings L, Fleet B, Smith DT, Read JM, Melville C, Sedda L. Determining the distance patterns in the movements of future doctors in UK between 2002 and 2015: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2024 Feb 29;14(3):e077635. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077635. |
| Before we commenced this funded research, some of the project team wrote a paper using a mobilities lens to examine the movement of doctors, which examined how the expectation of movement built into training programmes perpetuates unequal access to healthcare.
Brewster, L., Lambert, M., & Shelton, C. (2022). Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44( 7), 1077– 1093. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13480 |
We also made a visual abstract for our 2022 Sociology of Health and Illness paper, which outlines our ideas.