
Our Insight publications share analysis and research which draw on our in-depth experience providing expert, impartial advice and interventions to healthcare organisations to effectively manage and resolve concerns raised about the practice of individual healthcare practitioners.
By sharing these insights, we aim to support the healthcare system to better understand, manage and resolve concerns about doctors, dentists or pharmacists. Interested in receiving our Insight publications, directly to your inbox?
If you are interested in hearing more about our research and insights programme, please get in touch with us at nhsr.adviceresearchandevaluation@nhs.net
Read the latest Insight reports:
Advice services
Practitioner and healthcare organisation experiences of professional support and remediation action plans (July 2024)
Professional Support & Remediation (PSR): key features of recent action plans (Feb 2023)
Healthcare Professional Alert Notices (HPANs): insights from nine years of managing the scheme (Nov 2022)
Team reviews retrospective (Oct 2021)
Behaviour and behavioural assessment
Behavioural Assessments: findings from an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis (Sept 2022)
Bullying and harassment reported in our advice cases: an overview (Aug 2021)
Clinical performance and assessment
Findings from clinical performance assessments (Feb 2022)
Concerns
Research into concerns raised by healthcare organisations about practitioners (July 2021)
Practitioner Performance Advice casework during the Covid-19 pandemic (June 2021)
EDI
Demographics, professions and concerns: Patterns in Practitioner Performance Advice cases with a focus on IMGs (October 2024)
Demographics, professions and concerns: What are the patterns in Practitioner Performance Advice cases? (June 2023)
Who are the practitioners we advise on and are there any patterns of concerns? (July 2022)
Expert view
Informal First – the value of informal resolution and how Advice can support you (Sept 2024)
In Practice
Primary care
Supporting the management of performance concerns within primary care (Mar 2023)
Secondary care
Trends from Practitioner Performance Advice’s support of the management of exclusions in England (Jan 2025)
Specialties in Practitioner Performance Advice cases: Key themes and use of our services (Feb 2024)
Exclusion trends and evaluation of NHS Resolution resources to manage exclusions (Oct 2023)
Insights from 10 years of supporting the management of exclusions in England (Apr 2022)
Surgeons who are the subject of our cases (May 2021)
Team working
Team reviews retrospective (Oct 2021)
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