Qualified GPs planning to work overseas: ‘go, enjoy yourself, and come back’

Tsukagoshi, Sonia; Caesar, Susi; Weaver, Richard G.; Merriel, Samuel W D

doi:10.3399/bjgp18x698621

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“…There is recognition that leaving NHS employment (permanently or temporarily) does not necessarily mean stopping medical practice: instead, doctors are seen to be highly mobile, and may move to other countries where the work‐life balance and working conditions are seen to be better (Jones, 2019). An increase in junior doctors taking a break in NHS training to practise abroad has become a regular trope, with a cheery exhortation to ‘go and come back’ (Tsukagoshi et al., 2018). Changes to career structures and working conditions demonstrate a level of agency, as doctors resist practices that do not reflect their preferred work life and adapt, both at an individual level and in attempts to change policy.…”

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Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes

Brewster

Lambert

Shelton

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Doctors are typically portrayed as active agents in their work lives. However, this paper argues that this construction of agency ignores the effects of the healthcare structures that constrain choice, which in turn affects population health outcomes. Medical training pathways, regional boundaries, and rationalisation all have a long-lasting impact on the provision of healthcare. Using a mobilities lens to examine the movement of doctors, this paper examines how the expectation of movement built into training programmes perpetuates unequal access to healthcare. Long waiting times, poor care quality and lack of preventative care all perpetuate health inequalities; as one of the socio-economic determinants, access to healthcare affects health outcomes.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes

Brewster

Lambert

Shelton

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Huge hurdles for current returners and misdirected funding

Muldoon

2018

Br J Gen Pract

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Many GPs believe that inclusion of allied health professionals in our general practice teams has been done through necessity rather than by choice due to difficulties in recruiting GPs. 1 Many practices (including my own) have demonstrated that our practice clinical pharmacists are not simply 'proxy GPs' but are highly skilled health professionals who perform many roles that are not appropriate for GPs to be performing. In this world of optimising resources and maximising 'Left Shift' (apologies for the blatant use of CCG-jargon) it has never been more important for the right person to be doing the right job, at the right time, in the right place, at the right rate.

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Qualified GPs planning to work overseas: ‘go, enjoy yourself, and come back’

Cited by 2 publications

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Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes

Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes

Huge hurdles for current returners and misdirected funding

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