Abstract
Objective: To describe doctors' views on, and responses to, their professional working lives in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Design: Qualitative study using semi structured interviews. Setting: Two district hospitals and primary care settings in the North of England. Participants: Fifty-two doctors participated in the study - 47 worked in hospital and five worked in general practice. Main outcome measures: Qualitative information regarding doctors' views on their working lives. Results: The study provided insights into the views of their working lives of a sample of doctors in the NHS. Feelings they articulated contained a number of ambivalences. Feelings about the future were coloured by concerns about the impact of regulatory changes and processes of modernization on the experiential knowledge of doctors. Conclusions: These insights into doctors' views of their working lives might usefully inform those involved in the planning and overseeing of changes to health service structures and systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 592-597 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2008 |
Research Groups and Themes
- SPS Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research