Our research focuses on successful strategies to recruit, select, retain and develop people with the personal skills and attributes valued by healthcare providers. This work has underpinned the successful implementation of national selection methods for postgraduate medical training posts in anaesthesia and methods to recruit to undergraduate nursing posts in Northern Ireland.
We have utilised the UKMED database to seek answers to questions regarding what individual characteristics are associated with doctors’ choices to apply to certain specialties in postgraduate medical training and how best to identify widening participation students at undergraduate entry so that the healthcare workforce better resembles the population it serves.
Figures from the Centre for Workforce Intelligence predict increasing shortfalls in the numbers of qualified specialists across many disciplines and we are working with regulators such as the GMC and GDC to understand patterns of migration of registered practitioners in and out of the UK as well as factors affecting these trends.
