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Satisfaction and attrition in the UK healthcare sector over the past decade
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Ocean, Neel and Meyer, Caroline (2023) Satisfaction and attrition in the UK healthcare sector over the past decade. PLoS One, 18 (4). e0284516. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0284516 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284516
Abstract
Existing literature has highlighted concerns over working conditions in the UK National Health Service (NHS), with healthcare workers frequently citing work-life balance issues and stress as being drivers of attrition and burnout. However, we do not know whether these problems have become worse over time, particularly over the past decade, during which there have been multiple shocks to the UK healthcare system. To investigate this, we analysed data from NHS monthly workforce statistics and the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Three times as many workers left the NHS in 2021 for work-life balance reasons than in 2011, while estimated satisfaction with one’s amount of leisure time for healthcare workers fell by three times the amount that it fell for non-healthcare workers. Both satisfaction with amount of leisure time and satisfaction with income have remained lower for healthcare workers than for other public sector workers. By 2020, a worker that had low satisfaction with their amount of leisure time was as much as 22 percentage points less likely than in 2010 to remain in healthcare in the following year. Overall, working conditions in UK healthcare have deteriorated between 2010 and 2020, especially relative to the private sector. However, overall job satisfaction has fallen faster in other areas of the public sector than it has in healthcare, which may indicate wider issues within the UK public sector as a whole.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Administration > University Executive Office Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | National health services -- Great Britain , Medical care, Public health, Medical personnel -- Job satisfaction -- Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||
Official Date: | 13 April 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Article Number: | e0284516 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0284516 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 April 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 April 2023 | ||||||
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