Hospital workforce: fit for the future? looks at the key challenges facing the medical workforce.
 Hear about the key findings from the project from the report authors:
- Dr Andrew Goddard, director of medical workforce unit, RCP and consultant gastroenterologist
- Dr Ella Chaudhuri, co-author of Medical registrar: Empowering the unsung heroes of patient care and medical registrar
- Dr Sarah Logan co-author of Medical registrar: Empowering the unsung heroes of patient care and medical registrar
- Dr Nicola Mason co-author of Medical registrar: Empowering the unsung heroes of patient care and medical registrar
The report concludes that there needs to be a rethink of the skills in which doctors are trained, in order to better meet patients’ needs; while the role of the medical registrar and the esteem in which it is held must be reassessed and better valued.
View our series of videos about this report.
It finds that:
- There is significant geographical variation in the number of consultants per head of the population across the country; there are also variations among specialties.
- There are not enough doctors with the skills to care for frail older patients.
- The workload of the medical registrar is increasingly unmanageable.