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Creative solutions to London's NHS workforce challenges
1 Jul 2003
James Buchan, Belinda Finlayson, Pippa Gough
London's population is growing but the NHS is having difficulty recruiting, retaining and deploying its health care workforce. How can it overcome these challenges?
A motivated workforce is vital if the government is to achieve its plans to modernise the NHS. This research summary looks at what can be done to ensure and sustain morale.
Explores how the NHS could reverse the growing number of experienced, skilled older workers taking early retirement, and argues that sustained commitment is needed to make older people feel valued.
Tackling age discrimination in health and social care
1 Jan 2002
Emilie Roberts, Janice Robinson, Linda Seymour
Identifies a lack of tools to help combat age discrimination in the health and social care sectors, and offers guidance on policies to help eradicate ageist practices from the NHS.
Argues that integrated improvements across all aspects of nurses' working lives are needed to boost low morale in nursing and improve recruitment and retention rates.
