Papers by Andrew Woodward
GP in-depth review: Preliminary findings, Mar 2013
The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) an... more The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) and Health Education England (HEE) to undertake an in-depth review of the GP workforce in England. This is a medium-term, strategic review looking ahead to 2030.
This report presents our preliminary findings for consultation purposes. Please note that as some data and assumptions will be updated for our final forecasts, the analysis and conclusions in our final report may differ from those presented in this report.
Emerging recommendations
We reaffirm our previous recommendation (CfWI, 2011a) that there needs to be a substantial increase in GP training phased in over several years. We consider that achieving and maintaining 3,250 GP trainees per annum is necessary to address future demand, and should be the top priority. A substantial share of this workforce increase should go towards improving support for under-doctored areas to help achieve more equal access to GP services across England.
Given the rapidly changing nature of healthcare and the inherent uncertainties about future demand, however, we also recommend there be periodic reviews of future GP workforce supply and demand every 3–5 years, supported by a stronger evidence base.
Action is also needed to improve the attractiveness of general practice as a career, including promotion among medical students (and possibly earlier). We see merit in seeking to retain the existing workforce, for example ‘retainer schemes’ – particularly in areas where GPs are under most pressure – and providing support for returners through return-to-practice schemes. The GP Task Force is reviewing these areas.
Note: The final GP report was published by CfWI in July 2014 and can be found at: www.cfwi.org.uk
A strategic review of the future healthcare workforce: Informing medical and dental student intakes, Dec 2012
This report describes the work carried out by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) in sup... more This report describes the work carried out by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) in support of the Health and Education National Strategic Exchange (HENSE) review group on medical and dental student intakes.
The report provides workforce forecasts and the impact of skill mix and policy changes for both the medical and dental workforce in England for the period to 2040.
Along with the 'baseline' supply and demand projections the report contains projections for each of four plausible future scenarios. It also contains detailed modelling assumptions for the system dynamics models developed by CfWI for this project.
Note that the HENSE review group’s own report (including its recommendations) was published by the Department of Health (DH) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in December 2012 on the Department of Health website.
Soft Matter, 2007
A microfluidic device has been used to create novel monodisperse polymeric oil-in-water emulsions... more A microfluidic device has been used to create novel monodisperse polymeric oil-in-water emulsions of diameter 15–100 µm, stabilised by surfactants and polymers. The pulse field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR) signal attenuation function showed ...
In-depth review of the general practitioner workforce: Final report, Jul 2014
The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) an... more The Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) and Health Education England (HEE) to conduct an in-depth review of the general practitioner (GP) workforce in England.
This is a medium-term strategic review looking ahead to 2030, designed to provide the evidence base for forecasting workforce demand and supply, to enable sustainable improvements in planning for the GP workforce of the future.
The focus of this review is on GPs who have completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT holders).
The CfWI concludes that the current level of GPs being trained is inadequate and likely to lead to a major workforce demand-supply imbalance by 2020 unless action is taken. The CfWI suggests HEE consider a substantial increase in GP training numbers plus a number of measures to help boost workforce supply, particularly in the short term, given the significant lead-in time in training new GPs.
The CfWI worked with the General Practice Task Force on this review.
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This report presents our preliminary findings for consultation purposes. Please note that as some data and assumptions will be updated for our final forecasts, the analysis and conclusions in our final report may differ from those presented in this report.
Emerging recommendations
We reaffirm our previous recommendation (CfWI, 2011a) that there needs to be a substantial increase in GP training phased in over several years. We consider that achieving and maintaining 3,250 GP trainees per annum is necessary to address future demand, and should be the top priority. A substantial share of this workforce increase should go towards improving support for under-doctored areas to help achieve more equal access to GP services across England.
Given the rapidly changing nature of healthcare and the inherent uncertainties about future demand, however, we also recommend there be periodic reviews of future GP workforce supply and demand every 3–5 years, supported by a stronger evidence base.
Action is also needed to improve the attractiveness of general practice as a career, including promotion among medical students (and possibly earlier). We see merit in seeking to retain the existing workforce, for example ‘retainer schemes’ – particularly in areas where GPs are under most pressure – and providing support for returners through return-to-practice schemes. The GP Task Force is reviewing these areas.
Note: The final GP report was published by CfWI in July 2014 and can be found at: www.cfwi.org.uk
The report provides workforce forecasts and the impact of skill mix and policy changes for both the medical and dental workforce in England for the period to 2040.
Along with the 'baseline' supply and demand projections the report contains projections for each of four plausible future scenarios. It also contains detailed modelling assumptions for the system dynamics models developed by CfWI for this project.
Note that the HENSE review group’s own report (including its recommendations) was published by the Department of Health (DH) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in December 2012 on the Department of Health website.
This is a medium-term strategic review looking ahead to 2030, designed to provide the evidence base for forecasting workforce demand and supply, to enable sustainable improvements in planning for the GP workforce of the future.
The focus of this review is on GPs who have completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT holders).
The CfWI concludes that the current level of GPs being trained is inadequate and likely to lead to a major workforce demand-supply imbalance by 2020 unless action is taken. The CfWI suggests HEE consider a substantial increase in GP training numbers plus a number of measures to help boost workforce supply, particularly in the short term, given the significant lead-in time in training new GPs.
The CfWI worked with the General Practice Task Force on this review.
This report presents our preliminary findings for consultation purposes. Please note that as some data and assumptions will be updated for our final forecasts, the analysis and conclusions in our final report may differ from those presented in this report.
Emerging recommendations
We reaffirm our previous recommendation (CfWI, 2011a) that there needs to be a substantial increase in GP training phased in over several years. We consider that achieving and maintaining 3,250 GP trainees per annum is necessary to address future demand, and should be the top priority. A substantial share of this workforce increase should go towards improving support for under-doctored areas to help achieve more equal access to GP services across England.
Given the rapidly changing nature of healthcare and the inherent uncertainties about future demand, however, we also recommend there be periodic reviews of future GP workforce supply and demand every 3–5 years, supported by a stronger evidence base.
Action is also needed to improve the attractiveness of general practice as a career, including promotion among medical students (and possibly earlier). We see merit in seeking to retain the existing workforce, for example ‘retainer schemes’ – particularly in areas where GPs are under most pressure – and providing support for returners through return-to-practice schemes. The GP Task Force is reviewing these areas.
Note: The final GP report was published by CfWI in July 2014 and can be found at: www.cfwi.org.uk
The report provides workforce forecasts and the impact of skill mix and policy changes for both the medical and dental workforce in England for the period to 2040.
Along with the 'baseline' supply and demand projections the report contains projections for each of four plausible future scenarios. It also contains detailed modelling assumptions for the system dynamics models developed by CfWI for this project.
Note that the HENSE review group’s own report (including its recommendations) was published by the Department of Health (DH) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in December 2012 on the Department of Health website.
This is a medium-term strategic review looking ahead to 2030, designed to provide the evidence base for forecasting workforce demand and supply, to enable sustainable improvements in planning for the GP workforce of the future.
The focus of this review is on GPs who have completed their Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT holders).
The CfWI concludes that the current level of GPs being trained is inadequate and likely to lead to a major workforce demand-supply imbalance by 2020 unless action is taken. The CfWI suggests HEE consider a substantial increase in GP training numbers plus a number of measures to help boost workforce supply, particularly in the short term, given the significant lead-in time in training new GPs.
The CfWI worked with the General Practice Task Force on this review.