Background The introduction of advanced practitioners (APs) is one approach to addressing health and care workforce shortages, with around 6000 APs working in primary care in England. There is…

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If global healthcare were a country, it would be one of the world’s top five greenhouse gas emitters.

HPPN Spring Event 2026 – FINAL programmeDownload Call for Abstracts (CLOSED) We invite submissions of abstracts (up to 500 words) on any topic related to health politics, policy or management…

Organising sustainable health and care.

Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit

Submit your paper You are invited to submit a paper for the Organisational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC) Conference 2026. The conference will be jointly hosted by Saïd Business School and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Theme: Organising sustainable health and care. Previous conferences have explored a range of pressing issues, including adapting to and resisting policy and organisational change, innovation and transformation, and the dynamics of power, leadership, and culture.

The successful candidate will be expected to be a highly experienced qualitative researcher who is able to work independently while also working alongside experienced colleagues and with shared responsibility for managing the project.

By Imelda McDermott The Health Services Research UK (HSRUK) conference is a must-attend annual event for those interested in health and care services research, policy, and practice in the UK and internationally. It brings together a diverse community including academics, policymakers, and NHS and social care professionals, to promote cutting-edge research, foster collaboration, and drive improvements in health and social care.

Objectives To develop a model to support health systems in clarifying how they might target action to reduce health inequalities, and to use it to understand cu...

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

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Objective To summarise research on the efficacy and safety of UK physician associates and anaesthetic associates in the context of an ongoing policy review. Design Rapid systematic review. Search st...

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

To implement a new role in a mental health service, it is vital to understand how roles lead to changes in 'skill mix' in a service. In our NIHR (National…

The NHS is currently dealing with a workforce crisis, as it faces huge challenges recruiting and retaining a workforce capable of responding to increasing…

Damian Hodgson (Professor of Organisational Studies and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation) and Emily Wood (Senior Research Fellow at Sheffield Centre…

In my own testing with ChatGPT (3.5 Turbo) it almost seems to deliberately ignore some things. A interview where a person clearly discussed a research project in Africa, ChatGPT refused to see the con...

Justine Karpusheff explores a new realist synthesis of factors affecting retention of staff in UK adult mental health services.

More and better research is needed now to develop an evidence base that informs policy to maximise workforce effectiveness and wellbeing to respond to both the next health shock and the ongoing shock ...