Insights

Practitioner Performance Advice Insights Reports

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?

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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:

Analysis and commentary from Practitioner Performance Advice’s support of the management of exclusions in England (Sept 2025)


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: Analysis of Practitioner Performance Advice cases including a focus on sexual misconduct concerns (June 2025)

Demographics, professions and concerns: Patterns in Practitioner Performance Advice cases with a focus on IMGs (October 2024)

Experiences of ethnic minority and international medical graduate practitioners: Research to improve fairness in the management of concerns (March 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

Fairness and Proportionality: Principles and framework for healthcare organisations managing performance concerns (Jan 2025)


Primary care

Insights from five years of supporting the management of Medical and Dental Performers List suspensions (Nov 2023)

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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