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Primary care in the UK confronts a deepening GP crisis, with over 4,000 full time equivalent shortages projected to widen further without urgent workforce expansion. Pharmacists and advanced practitioners now anchor multidisciplinary teams, driving recruitment across GP practices, community pharmacies and integrated care systems.
The UK healthcare sector enters 2026 facing unprecedented recruitment challenges across NHS and private providers, driven by chronic staffing shortages and evolving clinician preferences for flexibility. Job boards like work.healthcare are uniquely positioned to connect employers with professionals seeking locum, permanent and portfolio roles in this competitive landscape.
Job-hunting doesn’t have to be stressful or time-consuming. By avoiding these common mistakes and using the right tools, you can take control of your career and find roles that truly suit your skills and lifestyle.
The way dentists find jobs has changed dramatically over the last decade. Gone are the days when word-of-mouth and local noticeboards were the primary routes to a new role. Today, online platforms play a crucial role in connecting dentists with practices across the UK, offering greater choice, transparency, and flexibility.
When applying for jobs, something as simple as the format of your CV can impact whether it’s read properly, scanned correctly, or even opened at all. While both PDF and Word (DOCX) are widely accepted, each has its strengths depending on where and how you're submitting your application.
Sustainable psychiatry recognises that climate change and ecological stresses are major threats to mental health. The NHS is working toward net-zero, and psychiatry has a direct role in reducing healthcare-related emissions while improving patient outcomes. Sustainable practice strengthens clinical quality, service efficiency and health equity.
A plain-English guide to how secondary care is organised, the pressures it faces, key indicators and recent statistics that matter to decision-makers, clinicians and the public.
Digital transformation in the NHS is hard but possible. NHS Providers set out eight practical principles — from delivering what staff and patients need to building in-house digital capability — to help trusts turn strategy into results.
Maternity Support Workers (MSWs) and other healthcare support staff in Wales will be re-banded where their duties meet higher responsibility levels, with backdated pay and recognition payments to follow.
Summary and practical guidance on the Competition and Markets Authority's provisional decision proposing 21 measures for veterinary businesses — price transparency, prescription cap, enhanced complaints routes and what happens next.
Recent research underscores a growing but under-realised opportunity within pharmacy education. As the environmental footprint of medicines becomes increasingly apparent, pharmacists — past, present and future — are uniquely positioned to safeguard both human and planetary health. But to do so, education programmes must evolve.
The Welsh Government has reached an agreement with NHS Wales and Community Pharmacy Wales to increase the total funding available to community pharmacies by 4% for 2025–26. This uplift is worth around £7 million and takes the total value of Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) fees and allowances to approximately £182 million.