WORKFORCE ARTICLES
Supporting a flexible healthcare workforce
The UK’s health and social care system is facing significant challenges, including demographic shifts, increasing demand, financial constraints and workforce shortages. New approaches are needed to long-standing challenges, and we all have a part to play, argues Mark Underwood. He looks at how we can support a flexible health and social care workforce to ensure a better future.
Driving clinician-led innovation
Head of Project Management at InnoScot Health, Gillian Henderson, discusses the vital need for fresh NHS workforce-led ideas at a challenging time. She argues that we have never had a greater need to embed an innovation mindset as early as possible, in future members of the NHS workforce, and looks at how clinical innovation can be supported.
Why civility must be part of the future of surgery
At NPAG 2024, human factors in operating theatres were high on the agenda. ‘Incivility can be contagious’ and ‘rudeness can prove deadly’ were among the take-home messages of the day. Louise Frampton reports.
Why apprenticeships must be part of the workforce plan
Apprenticeships are the missing piece of the puzzle to reduce staff shortages and treatment waiting times. They can also promote diversity, says Professor Lynne Gell, Dean of the School of Nursing, at BPP.
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