A horizon scanning exercise to explore retention policies for international and minoritised NHS Trust staff in England: what are the current pledges and where are the gaps?
To our knowledge this is the first study to collect and analyse current Trust level NHS staff retention policies in England. The results are important because they reveal that while some factors that may influence retention of minoritised and international staff were comprehensively addressed by the sampled Trusts' policy documents, many others were absent. The documents are reflective of organisations with social and institutional awareness of staff-wide retention drivers but not necessarily cognisant of specific additional drivers of attrition for international and minoritised staff. We recommend that policy makers reframe generic statements regarding attrition and retention as concrete procedures with specified measurable outcomes. Our findings will now contribute to the co-creation of a suite of retention policy interventions in collaboration with our stakeholder groups.
Authors
- Manish Pareek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-9964)
- Rebecca A. Moss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-5396)
- Asta Medišauskaitė (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0404-775X)
- Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092)
- Mehrunisha Suleman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8819-0659)
- Adam J. Mann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2062-3929)
- Luke Bryant (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-4851)
- Katherine Woolf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4915-0715)
- Susie Lagrata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5672-5540)
- Anna L. Guyatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1860-6337)
- Carol Rivas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0316-8090)
- Carol Woodhams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9703-1107)
- Padmasayee Papineni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-1542)
- Asad Masood
- Sorin Krammer
Institutions
- University College Hospital (GB)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (GB)
- NIHR Research Delivery Network (GB)
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Imperial College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Health Services Research
- Published
- 2025-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13348-7
- Primary Topic
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Leicester
- University College London
- University of Oxford
- University of Glasgow
- University of Surrey
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust