ArticleFuture healthcare journal2025
Redesigning a general surgery foundation doctor rota to improve shift equity, staffing levels, doctors' pay and patient care.
Article in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Training experience across UK medicine: deanery differences versus site variation-General Medical Council National Training Survey 2025 analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The commercial elephant in the room.Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
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Abstract
Inefficient rota design is a key cause of rota gaps, additional work hours and poor rest among doctors. These are major factors in declining NHS doctor workforce retention rates and compromised patient care. Eighteen improvements were made to the Broomfield Hospital General Surgery foundation doctor rota to improve shift equity, staffing levels, doctors' pay and patient care. The rota can be used as a template by rota coordinators across NHS trusts. Doctors should be actively involved with improving local rota design.
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