The dispute over the contract for junior doctors in England may have a long lasting effect on the NHS because it led many junior doctors to change specialties or defer training, researchers have said. A survey of junior doctors' career intentions found that many changed their career plans ...
Meet the people you should know before starting your foundation training Within the NHS many people doing different jobs work together to ensure the smooth running of patient care. As a junior doctor, you will meet hundreds of staff members in every job you do. A basic rule is to be ...
The NHS is bracing for one of the most disruptive strikes yet - Sky News looks at why it could be so bad, how NHS care could be affected and the reasons for doctors taking industrial action.
"Is it any surprise that junior doctors are looking for jobs abroad or in other fields when the government is telling them they are worth more than a quarter less than they were in 2008? Why are doctors quitting the NHS? "Losing such valuable clinicians to other countries and professions wh...
The Echo has learned that Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust is struggling to fill vital junior doctor posts. It is understood there are at least 10 vacancies, including locum posts. And a further 12 non-consultant grade posts have not been filled, eight of which are in A&E. A memo leaked...
(when the price of things like food increases over time). The BMA hopes the pay rise will mean fewer NHS doctors leave their jobs or move to work in another country for better pay and conditions. As The Week Junior went to press, the BMA and the Government had not arranged to meet ...
“It is the sensible time to leave, as specialist training is a treadmill that is difficult to get off. If I went later, it would interrupt my training and it would be harder to return. In February I had been a doctor for 20 months; in the UK system I had to decide on what speci...
In this study, we use the terms “GP” and “family doctor” interchangeably. In this hyperlink we provide an animated visualization with the population-adjusted geographic dispersion of medical doctors in Portugal, according to their medical specialty. (http://public.tableau.com/profile/pedro.jorge...
Drexit ("Doctor-Exit") is the exponentially growing trend for junior doctors in the UK to walk away from their jobs in the National Health Service (NHS). Our objective was to identify the reasons why junior doctors in the UK leave their NHS training programs to train overseas.#A ...
As a matter of urgency, the Health Secretary must guarantee that no doctor will be denied a career in the NHS as a result of poor workforce planning.'If our most talented doctors are forced out of training, they will head overseas or leave medicine entirely. They will lose out on their ...