PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fay Smith
AU  - Trevor W Lambert
AU  - Michael J Goldacre
TI  - The characteristics and views of early retirees compared with doctors still in work: views of the UK ­medical graduates of 1983 surveyed in 2016
AID  - 10.7861/futurehosp.5-3-192
DP  - 2018 Oct 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 192--197
VI  - 5
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/3/192.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/3/192.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2018 Oct 01; 5
AB  - Questionnaires were used to compare the characteristics and views of early retirees with those of doctors who were still working. Of doctors aged under 60 years, 88% were still working in medicine, 5% were fully retired and 7% were ‘returners’ (had retired and returned to do work). More women (8%) than men (4%) were fully retired. More GPs (13%) than hospital doctors (8%) had retired: male hospital doctors had a low retirement rate of 5.3%. More working doctors (28%) than fully retired doctors (20%) agreed that there were good prospects for improvement of the NHS in their specialty. More fully retired doctors (67%) and returners (67%) than working doctors (55%) referred to adverse health effects of working as a doctor. Early retirement decisions were motivated by the doctors’ views of what is happening in their own specialty and by adverse health effects that they attributed to their work.