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1. The unrecognised profession with a national shortage (HSJ, 8 July 2026)

   • Workforce management
   • Recruitment
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Workforce management
     • Recruitment
     • Screening
     • Additional staff required

   By Patient Safety Learning, Friday at 08:01

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   • Friday at 08:01

2. Guidance: NHS staff standards (DHSC, 6 July 2026)

   • Staff factors
   • Standards
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Staff factors
     • Standards
     • Staff support
     • Workforce management
     • Discrimination
     • Staff safety

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 July

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   • 8 July

3. We asked how the NHS can boost productivity: here’s what we heard (The Health Foundation, 11 May 2026)

   • Productivity
   • Workforce management
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Productivity
     • Workforce management
     • Organisational Performance
     • Organisational culture
     • Motivation
     • Staff engagement
     • Staff support

   By Clare Hinkley, 9 June

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   • 190 views
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   • 9 June

4. Have physician associates done more harm than good? (The Times, 5 March 2026)

   • Physician associate
   • Staff factors
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     • Physician associate
     • Staff factors
     • Skill-based issue
     • Workforce management

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 March

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   • 10 March

5. Partha Kar: Expanding roles of healthcare staff—where are the safety checks? (BMJ, 3 March 2026)

   • Staff factors
   • Workforce management
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Staff factors
     • Workforce management
     • Skills
     • Physician associate

   By Patient Safety Learning, 4 March

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   • 344 views
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   • 4 March

6. NHS workforce in a nutshell (The King's Fund, 4 November 2025)

   • Workload analysis
   • Staff factors
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Workload analysis
     • Staff factors
     • Skills
     • Data
     • Workforce management

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 November, 2025

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   • 10 November, 2025

7. Risks posed by nurses’ working hours in the intensive care unit: a systematic review (23 October 2025)

   • Working hours
   • Workload analysis
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     • Working hours
     • Workload analysis
     • Nurse
     • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
     • Systematic review
     • Fatigue / exhaustion

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 October, 2025

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   • 27 October, 2025

8. Hospital staffing and patient outcomes after private equity acquisition (23 September 2025)

   • Research
   • Private sector
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Research
     • Private sector
     • USA
     • Safe staffing
     • Workforce management
     • Patient harmed
     • Emergency medicine
     • ICU/ ITU/ HDU

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 October, 2025

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   • 18 October, 2025

9. Why pharmacist burnout is a patient safety issue (5 October 2025)

   • Fatigue / exhaustion
   • Working hours
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Fatigue / exhaustion
     • Working hours
     • Workforce management
     • Pharmacist

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 October, 2025

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   • 6 October, 2025

10. The hidden work in health care: unpaid overtime in the NHS (The Health Foundation, 15 August 2025)

    • Workforce management
    • Staff factors
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Workforce management
      • Staff factors
      • Additional staff required
      • Working hours
      • Workload analysis
      • Productivity

    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 August, 2025

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    • 718 views
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    • 21 August, 2025

11. Partha Kar: The Leng review offers pragmatism along with lessons for the NHS (BMJ, 21 July 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Workforce management
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Workforce management
      • Skill-based issue
      • Regulatory issue

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 July, 2025

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    • 25 July, 2025

12. The Leng Review: an independent review into physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions (16 July 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Skill-based issue
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Skill-based issue
      • Regulatory issue
      • Transparency
      • Workforce management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 July, 2025

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    • 16 July, 2025

13. Managing the cost of the NHS workforce (Healthcare Financial Management Association, 16 May 2025)

    • Workforce management
    • Funding
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Workforce management
      • Funding
      • Regulatory issue
      • Electronic Patient Record
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Productivity

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 June, 2025

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    • 321 views
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    • 20 June, 2025

14. AmReS: an observational retrospective time-to-event analysis of staff voluntary turnover in an English ambulance trust (15 April 2025)

    • Research
    • Staff factors
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Research
      • Staff factors
      • Workforce management
      • Ambulance
      • Paramedic

    By Patient Safety Learning, 24 May, 2025

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    • 24 May, 2025

15. Developing the allied health professionals workforce within mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient services: rapid review of learning from quality and safety incidents

    • Workforce management
    • Systematic review
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Workforce management
      • Systematic review
      • Mental health
      • Learning disorders
      • Autism
      • AHP Allied health professionals (AHP)
      • Patient safety incident

    By Patient Safety Learning, 29 April, 2025

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    • 461 views
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    • 29 April, 2025

16. Why systems must ‘deeply understand’ today’s evolving workforce (14 April 2025)

    • Workforce management
    • USA
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Workforce management
      • USA
      • Staff factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 April, 2025

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    • 18 April, 2025

17. GMC response to the Leng Review’s call for evidence: Independent review of physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions (21 March 2025)

    • Workforce management
    • Physician associate
    • (and 7 more)

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      • Workforce management
      • Physician associate
      • Anaesthesia
      • Skills
      • Regulatory issue
      • Transparency
      • Communication
      • Skill-based issue
      • Staff factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 April, 2025

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    • 870 views
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    • 14 April, 2025

18. BMA submission to the independent review of the physician associate and anaesthesia associate professions (10 April 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Anaesthetist
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Anaesthetist
      • Workforce management
      • Regulatory issue
      • Skill-based issue

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 April, 2025

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    • 387 views
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    • 13 April, 2025

19. Doctors and physician associates: As a medical student, I’m trying to figure out who does what (5 April 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Doctor
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Doctor
      • Skill-based issue
      • Communication
      • Training
      • Patient harmed

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 April, 2025

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    • 480 views
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    • 10 April, 2025

20. BMA Reporting Portal Submissions: Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates (3 April 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Regulatory issue
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Regulatory issue
      • Decision making
      • Skills
      • Transparency

    By Mark Hughes, 3 April, 2025

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    • 983 views
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    • 3 April, 2025

21. SafetyNet webinar: The impact of shift work on safety outcomes for patients (27 February 2025)

    • Staff support
    • Working hours

    By Patient Safety Learning, 31 March, 2025

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    • 31 March, 2025

22. Physician associates and anaesthetic associates in UK: rapid systematic review of recent UK based research (BMJ, 7 March)

    • Physician associate
    • Skills
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Skills
      • Regulatory issue

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 March, 2025

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    • 396 views
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    • 11 March, 2025

23. Fixing the care crisis: Stopping the staff exodus, building resilient care systems A global survey of institutional health and care workers (10 February 2025)

    • Global health
    • Safe staffing
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Global health
      • Safe staffing
      • Lack of resources
      • Additional staff required
      • Workforce management
      • Working hours
      • Staff safety

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 March, 2025

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    • 551 views
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    • 11 March, 2025

24. Has racism in medicine improved since 2020? (19 February 2025)

    • Race
    • Discrimination
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Race
      • Discrimination
      • Staff safety
      • Staff support

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 March, 2025

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    • 359 views
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    • 7 March, 2025

25. Doctors more sleep deprived now than after the pandemic, MDU survey finds (3 March 2025)

    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • Staff safety
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Staff safety
      • Staff support
      • Staff factors
      • Patient harmed
      • Working hours
      • Workforce management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 March, 2025

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    • 715 views
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    • 3 March, 2025