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1. 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

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

   • Staff factors
   • Workforce management
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     • Staff factors
     • Workforce management
     • Skills
     • Physician associate

   By Patient Safety Learning, 4 March

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   • 4 March

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

   • Workload analysis
   • Staff factors
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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

4. 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

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

   • Research
   • Private sector
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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

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

   • Fatigue / exhaustion
   • Working hours
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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

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

   • Workforce management
   • Staff factors
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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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   • 21 August, 2025

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

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

   By Patient Safety Learning, 25 July, 2025

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   • 25 July, 2025

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

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

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 July, 2025

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   • 16 July, 2025

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

    • Workforce management
    • Funding
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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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    • 20 June, 2025

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

    • Research
    • Staff factors
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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

12. 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
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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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    • 29 April, 2025

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

    • Workforce management
    • USA
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      • Workforce management
      • USA
      • Staff factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 April, 2025

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    • 18 April, 2025

14. 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
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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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    • 14 April, 2025

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

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

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 April, 2025

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    • 13 April, 2025

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

    • Physician associate
    • Doctor
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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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    • 10 April, 2025

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

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

    By Mark Hughes, 3 April, 2025

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    • 3 April, 2025

18. 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

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

    • Physician associate
    • Skills
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      • Physician associate
      • Skills
      • Regulatory issue

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 March, 2025

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    • 11 March, 2025

20. 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
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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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    • 11 March, 2025

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

    • Race
    • Discrimination
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      • Race
      • Discrimination
      • Staff safety
      • Staff support

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 March, 2025

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    • 7 March, 2025

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

    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • Staff safety
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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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    • 3 March, 2025

23. The role of top managers in the public sector: Evidence from the English NHS (November 2024)

    • Leadership
    • Recruitment
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      • Leadership
      • Recruitment
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 March, 2025

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    • 1 March, 2025

24. Independent review of physician and anaesthesia associates: areas to be covered (Department of Health and Social Care, 23 January 2025)

    • Physician associate
    • Training
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      • Physician associate
      • Training
      • Regulatory issue
      • Workforce management
      • Doctor

    By Mark Hughes, 23 January, 2025

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    • 23 January, 2025

25. In the balance: Lessons for changing the mix of professions in NHS services (Nuffield Trust, January 2025)

    • Workforce management
    • Skills
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      • Workforce management
      • Skills
      • Skills gap
      • Staff factors
      • Additional staff required

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 January, 2025

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    • 17 January, 2025