Our Workforce and Systems Resilience theme will generate evidence to support a sustainable and resilient workforce that can deliver high-quality patient care, improve the nation’s health and economic productivity, and contribute to reducing health inequalities. 

Why this matters 

The health and care workforce both within the North West Coast and nationally face several challenges including an ageing population with high health needs, high number of staff vacancies, high rates of staff burnout and turnover, financial pressures and skills development for a workforce that will increasingly be using digital technologies and data. 

Our research will be driven by local and national priorities.  Our approach aims to support a system shift in the design, capacity and resilience of the health and care workforce

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Our areas of research 

 Our research will be driven by local and national priorities.  Our approach aims to support a system shift in the design, capacity and resilience of the health and care workforce. To ensure that our research is representative of the population, we work alongside Public Contributor Champions (PCC’s), Practitioner Champions (PC’s), private and voluntary sector (VCSE) to support research prioritisation and implementation. 

Our research will be focussed on the following priorities: 

• Understanding Current and Future Workforce Needs 
• Supporting the Health and Well-being of the Workforce 
• Supporting people into health and social care careers

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Get involved  

If you would like to get involved, we are currently recruiting for internships, fellowships, and PhD studentships and welcome you to reach out to our project officer ali.sheen@lancaster.ac.uk, in the first instance, to develop a research topic collaboratively.  

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