PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Harriet Gordon
TI  - Later careers – regenerating the medical workforce
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-5-397
DP  - 2018 Oct 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 397--399
VI  - 18
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/5/397.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/5/397.full
SO  - Clin Med2018 Oct 01; 18
AB  - We have a medical workforce crisis where we have insufficient trainees, demonstrated by rota gaps, and in turn nearly half of advertised consultant physician posts cannot be appointed to. Most physicians retire around age 62, and already 5% of the total consultant workforce is those who have retired and returned. If those reaching retirement age chose not to retire but continue working less than full time this would, at least in part, benefit the workforce and utilise valuable skills and experience to the benefit of the individual, the wider medical community and therefore our patients.