Improve working conditions or risk losing senior doctors, new government is warned

Three top royal medical colleges, representing 60 000 doctors, have warned the new Labour government that it must act urgently to improve doctors’ working conditions or risk losing critical senior staff from the NHS.

In the 2023 UK consultant physician workforce census—a collaboration between the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow—almost half of the consultants surveyed (47%) reported losing enjoyment in their job in the past year.1 Workload, poor IT, and …