Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement
Introduction and aims: Health systems around the world face difficulties retaining their workforce, which is exacerbated by the early retirement of experienced clinicians. This study aims to determine how to incentivise doctors to delay their retirement. Methods: We used a discrete choice experiment...
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| author | Cleland, Jennifer Porteous, Terry Ejebu, Ourega-Zoé Ryan, Mandy Skåtun, Diane |
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| description | Introduction and aims: Health systems around the world face difficulties retaining their workforce, which is exacerbated by the early retirement of experienced clinicians. This study aims to determine how to incentivise doctors to delay their retirement. Methods: We used a discrete choice experiment to estimate the relative importance of job characteristics in doctors’ willingness to delay retirement, and the number of extra years they were willing to delay retirement when job characteristics improved. 2885 British Medical Association members aged between 50 and 70 years, registered with the General Medical Council, practising in Scotland (in December 2019), and who had not started to draw a pension were invited. We compared the preferences of hospital doctors (HDs) and general practitioners (GPs). Results: The response rate was 27.4% (n = 788). The number of extra years expected to work was the most important job characteristic for both respondents, followed by work intensity for GPs, whereas working hours and on-call were more important for HDs. Personalised working conditions and pension taxation were the least important characteristics for both groups. Setting all characteristics to their BEST levels, GPs would be willing to delay retirement by 4 years and HDs by 7 years. Conclusions: Characteristics related to the job rather than pension could have the greatest impact on delaying retirement among clinicians. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1626422022-11-02T00:59:07Z Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement Cleland, Jennifer Porteous, Terry Ejebu, Ourega-Zoé Ryan, Mandy Skåtun, Diane Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Science::Medicine Workforce Retention Discrete Choice Experiment Introduction and aims: Health systems around the world face difficulties retaining their workforce, which is exacerbated by the early retirement of experienced clinicians. This study aims to determine how to incentivise doctors to delay their retirement. Methods: We used a discrete choice experiment to estimate the relative importance of job characteristics in doctors’ willingness to delay retirement, and the number of extra years they were willing to delay retirement when job characteristics improved. 2885 British Medical Association members aged between 50 and 70 years, registered with the General Medical Council, practising in Scotland (in December 2019), and who had not started to draw a pension were invited. We compared the preferences of hospital doctors (HDs) and general practitioners (GPs). Results: The response rate was 27.4% (n = 788). The number of extra years expected to work was the most important job characteristic for both respondents, followed by work intensity for GPs, whereas working hours and on-call were more important for HDs. Personalised working conditions and pension taxation were the least important characteristics for both groups. Setting all characteristics to their BEST levels, GPs would be willing to delay retirement by 4 years and HDs by 7 years. Conclusions: Characteristics related to the job rather than pension could have the greatest impact on delaying retirement among clinicians. This study was funded by a grant from the University of Aberdeen Development Trust (UOA Ref: RG14022), and the qualitative data collection (reported separately) was supported by funding from BMA Scotland (UOA Ref: RG14434). 2022-11-02T00:59:07Z 2022-11-02T00:59:07Z 2022 Journal Article Cleland, J., Porteous, T., Ejebu, O., Ryan, M. & Skåtun, D. (2022). Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement. Health Policy, 126(1), 60-68. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.11.004 0168-8510 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162642 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.11.004 34887102 2-s2.0-85120713755 1 126 60 68 en Health Policy © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved |
| spellingShingle | Science::Medicine Workforce Retention Discrete Choice Experiment Cleland, Jennifer Porteous, Terry Ejebu, Ourega-Zoé Ryan, Mandy Skåtun, Diane Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title | Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title_full | Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title_fullStr | Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title_short | Won't you stay just a little bit longer? A discrete choice experiment of UK doctors' preferences for delaying retirement |
| title_sort | won t you stay just a little bit longer a discrete choice experiment of uk doctors preferences for delaying retirement |
| topic | Science::Medicine Workforce Retention Discrete Choice Experiment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162642 |
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