Leading research to shape a stronger, fairer future with our health and care staff.

Workforce Voices is an NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HSDR) workforce research partnership. Our partnership works between universities and healthcare organisations to find ways to improve the working experience of different staff groups in the NHS – anyone working in any role in general practice or maternity services.

We are here to listen to and learn from their experiences, and build new ways to improve careers, health and care services, and lives, together.

Our work is based on principles of collaboration, working with staff and patients to identify and develop improvements together. Across this website you will find details of our work, including opportunities to get involved in different ways, and updates on our work so far.

We want to work with staff and patients who we hope will see real benefit from our work, with the policymakers who we hope will help us achieve that benefit, and other academic and researcher colleagues who we can learn from and work with.

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Member of the public

Patients, carers and communities are at the heart of Workforce Voices.

Health and social care workforce

Workforce Voices is here to support people working in health and care – especially in places where recruitment and retention are most challenging.

Researchers and academic collaborators

Workforce Voices will be producing high quality rigorous research. Working with other researchers, to develop new, affiliated projects, will help support the sustainability and impact of our own work.

Policymakers and decision makers

Working closely with the policymakers who shape the health and care system will be essential to ensuring our work is timely and effective.

Community of Partnerships

Workforce Voices is one of five workforce research partnerships funded by HSDR. All are focused on different issues for the workforce across the health and care system, and collectively we will be building a comprehensive programme of work to address workforce challenges in coming years.

AHP WRaP

Allied Health Professions Workforce Research Partnership led by Prof Julie Nightingale at Sheffield Hallam University.

SURGE

The Same Day and Urgent Care Workforce Research Partnership (SURGE). Led by Professor Sarah Voss at the University of the West of England.

CARES-Well

Innovative partnerships to enable staff to care well under pressure and thrive at work. Led by Prof Cath Taylor and Prof Jill Maben at the University of Surrey.

Adult Social Care Workforce Research Partnership

The Adult Social Care Workforce Partnership led by Prof Ann-Marie Towers at the Kings College London, and Prof Karen Spilsbury at the University of Leeds.

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