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Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments
BACKGROUND: Quantitative evidence suggests that Brexit has had a severe and negative impact on European doctors, with many medical staff leaving the UK. This study provides a detailed examination of European doctors’ feelings towards Brexit, their intentions to leave the UK, and factors that may con...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33648510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06201-0 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Quantitative evidence suggests that Brexit has had a severe and negative impact on European doctors, with many medical staff leaving the UK. This study provides a detailed examination of European doctors’ feelings towards Brexit, their intentions to leave the UK, and factors that may contribute to their potential decisions to migrate. METHODS: An online questionnaire which included three optional free-text questions explored self-identifying UK-based, European doctors’ views of Brexit. The three questions prompted responses on how Brexit has impacted their personal lives, their professional lives, and their future migration decisions. Fifty-nine doctors participated in the questionnaire with 52 (88.1%) providing one or more responses to the three free-text questions. Twenty-seven doctors provided answers to all three free-text questions (51.9% of included sample). Thematic analysis was used to analyse this qualitative data. RESULTS: Brexit was reported by the majority of participants to have a profound impact, although some respondents felt it was too soon to assess the potential consequences. Five themes emerged including: feeling unwelcome in the UK, Brexit as racism, uncertainty on legal ability to work, strain on relationships, and in contrast, a current lack of concern about Brexit. CONCLUSIONS: To mitigate the adverse personal and professional impact of Brexit, healthcare providers should provide financial and legal support to doctors applying for settlement in the UK, ensure they are addressing issues of racial and ethnic inequality in hiring, promotion, and pay, and work towards making clinical work environments inclusive for all staff and patients. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-021-06201-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-79175292021-03-01 Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments Milner, Adrienne Nielsen, Rebecca Norris, Emma BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Quantitative evidence suggests that Brexit has had a severe and negative impact on European doctors, with many medical staff leaving the UK. This study provides a detailed examination of European doctors’ feelings towards Brexit, their intentions to leave the UK, and factors that may contribute to their potential decisions to migrate. METHODS: An online questionnaire which included three optional free-text questions explored self-identifying UK-based, European doctors’ views of Brexit. The three questions prompted responses on how Brexit has impacted their personal lives, their professional lives, and their future migration decisions. Fifty-nine doctors participated in the questionnaire with 52 (88.1%) providing one or more responses to the three free-text questions. Twenty-seven doctors provided answers to all three free-text questions (51.9% of included sample). Thematic analysis was used to analyse this qualitative data. RESULTS: Brexit was reported by the majority of participants to have a profound impact, although some respondents felt it was too soon to assess the potential consequences. Five themes emerged including: feeling unwelcome in the UK, Brexit as racism, uncertainty on legal ability to work, strain on relationships, and in contrast, a current lack of concern about Brexit. CONCLUSIONS: To mitigate the adverse personal and professional impact of Brexit, healthcare providers should provide financial and legal support to doctors applying for settlement in the UK, ensure they are addressing issues of racial and ethnic inequality in hiring, promotion, and pay, and work towards making clinical work environments inclusive for all staff and patients. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-021-06201-0. BioMed Central 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7917529/ /pubmed/33648510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06201-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Milner, Adrienne Nielsen, Rebecca Norris, Emma Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title | Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title_full | Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title_fullStr | Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title_full_unstemmed | Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title_short | Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
title_sort | brexit and european doctors’ decisions to leave the united kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33648510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06201-0 |
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