The King’s Fund: Hospital workforce: fit for the future?

Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

Hospital workforce: fit for the future?
This report brings together findings from the medical registrar report and the 2011 RCP consultant census and looks at the key challenges that are facing the medical workforce. It concludes that there needs to be a rethink of the skills in which doctors are trained, in order to better meet patients’ needs; while the role of the medical registrar and the esteem in which it is held must be reassessed and better valued.