NHS England has published its annual update on Enhancing Doctors’ Working Lives.
This year’s report focuses on improving flexibility in training, using technology to support better and easier rostering, annual leave and swap requests, supporting doctors back into training and expanding Flexible Portfolio Training to all specialties across England.
This week NHS England and NHS WTE wrote to trust leaders with a requirement for renewed focus on improving the lives of working doctors.
The GMC have published research on retention of doctors, investigating the trends of international migration. 13% of doctors practising in the UK who answered reported being likely to move abroad in the next 12 months and there was a gap between intention and action.
The West Midlands Dean’s office hosted over 100 local multi-professional senior leaders. The event was supported by the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the GMC.