Intentions and actions towards leaving healthcare work since COVID-19: group-based trajectory analyses in the UK-REACH cohort
Over half of UK healthcare workers surveyed intended or had taken action to leave or change their role. Interventions to enhance workforce sustainability could be targeted at older workers and those in nursing, midwifery and dental roles and focus on reducing discrimination, improving mental health and protecting the financial security healthcare worker jobs offer.
Authors
- Manish Pareek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-9964)
- Asta Medišauskaitė (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0404-775X)
- Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092)
- Raman Mishra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8257-6019)
- Katherine Woolf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4915-0715)
- Anna L. Guyatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1860-6337)
- Shingai Musuka
- Christopher A Martin
- On behalf of the I-CARE Study Collaborative Group
Institutions
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Lancashire (GB)
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (GB)
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (GB)
- NIHR Research Delivery Network (GB)
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- Published
- 2026-02-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768261419581
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00