Health Workforce Ireland Publications

​Brain Drain to Brain Gain Project

Title: Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Ireland's Two-Way Flow of Doctors 
Authors: Walsh A., Brugha R 
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ephmrep 

Title: Ireland: A Destination and Source Country for Health Professional Migration. 
Authors: Brugha R., McAleese S. Humphries N. 2016 
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/031616-108IrelandStudy.pdf


'Doctor Emigration Project' and 'Failure to Retain'

Humphries, N., Crowe, S., & Brugha, R. (2018). Failing to retain a new generation of doctors: qualitative insights from a high-income country. BMC Health Serv Res, 18(1), 144. doi:10.1186/s12913-018-2927-y
 
Humphries, N., Crowe, S., McDermott, C., McAleese, S., & Brugha, R. (2017). The consequences of Ireland’s culture of medical migration. Human Resources for Health, 15(1), 87. doi:10.1186/s12960-017-0263-7
 
Crowe, S., Clarke, N., & Brugha, R. (2017). 'You do not cross them': Hierarchy and emotion in doctors' narratives of power relations in specialist training. Soc Sci Med, 186, 70-77. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.048

Clarke N, Crowe S, Humphries N, Conroy R, O’Hare S, Kavanagh P, Brugha R.
Factors influencing trainee doctor emigration in a high income country: a mixed methods study.
Hum Resour Health 2017 15 (1): 66
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-017-0239-7
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Title: Gone for good? An online survey of emigrant health professionals using Facebook as a recruitment tool
Authors: McAleese S, Clyne B, Matthews A, Brugha R, Humphries N. 2016 Human Resources for Health: 14 (S1): 34  doi: 10.1186/s12960-016-0130-y.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0130-y

Title: ‘Emigration is a matter of self-preservation. The working conditions . . . are killing us slowly’: qualitative insights into health professional emigration from Ireland.”
Authors: Humphries N, McAleese S, Matthews A, Brugha R. 2015. Human Resources for Health: 13 (1); doi:10.1186/s12960-015-0022-6.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-015-0022-6

Title: Irish Trainees Continuing to Emigrate. IMJ Editorial.
Authors: Brugha R, Crowe S, Humphries N. 2015. Irish Medial Journal: 108 (9); 262
http://www.healthworkforceireland.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/irish_trainees_continuing_to_emigrate._imj_editorial._oct_2015.pdf

Title: NCHD emigration crisis and the need for consultant-delivered care
Author: Kelleher E., Brugha R. 2013 Irish Medical Journal: 106 (5): 133-4
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=ephmart


Doctor Migration Project

Title: Passing through – reasons why migrant doctors in Ireland plan to stay, return home or migrate onwards to new destination countries.
Author: Brugha R, McAleese S, Dicker P, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Humphries N. 2016. Human Resources for Health:14; doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0121-z.
https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0121-z

Title: Predictors of career progression and obstacles and opportunities for non-EU hospital doctors to undertake postgraduate training in Ireland.
Authors: Tyrrell E, Keegan C, Humphries N, McAleese S, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2016. Human Resources for Health: 14. doi:10.1186/s12960-016-0120-0.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0120-0

Title: Applying a typology of health worker migration to non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, McAleese S, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2015. Human Resources for Health: 13 (1); doi:10.1186/s12960-015-0042-2.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-015-0042-2

Title: “I am in a kind of stalemate”. The experiences of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland
Authors: Humphries N, Bidwell P,  Tyrrell E, Brugha R, Thomas S, Normand C. 2014 In: Buchan J, Wismar M, Glinos IA, Bremner J. editors. Health professional mobility in a changing Europe. New dynamics, mobile individuals and diverse response. The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (World Health Organisation); 2014. p. 233-250.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=ephmart

Title: The National and International Implications of a Decade of Doctor Migration in the Irish Context.
Authors: Bidwell P, Humphries N, Dicker P, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2013. Health Policy: 110 (1); 29–38.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/ephmart/40/

Title: A cycle of brain gain, waste and drain – a qualitative study of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Tyrrell E, McAleese S, Bidwell P, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2013. Human Resources for Health: 11 (63); 10–1186.
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/63

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Nurse Migration Project

Title: Nurse migration and health workforce planning: Ireland as illustrative of international challenges.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2012. Health Policy: 107 (1); 44–53. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.06.007.
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/nurse_migration_and_health_workforce_planning-_ireland_as_illustr.pdf

Title: “I won’t be staying here for long”: a qualitative study on the Retention of migrant nurses in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009. Human Resources for Health: 7 (1); 68 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-68.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-4491-7-68

Title: Sending money home: a mixed-methods study of remittances by migrant nurses in Ireland.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009. Human Resources for Health: 7 (1); 66. doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-66.
http://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-4491-7-66

Title: Overseas nurse recruitment: Ireland as an illustration of the dynamic nature of nurse migration.
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008. Health Policy: 87 (2); 264-72. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.12.014
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ephmart

Title: Career Progression of Migrant Nurses in Ireland: Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 5
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ephmrep

Title: A Profile of Migrant Nurses in Ireland. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 4
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=ephmrep

Title: Retaining Migrant Nurses in Ireland II. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 3
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2009
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ephmrep

Title: Retaining Migrant Nurses in Ireland. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 2
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=ephmrep

Title: Nurse Migration to Ireland: An Overview. Nurse Migration Project Policy Brief 1
Authors: Humphries N, Brugha R, McGee H. 2008
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=ephmrep


Conference presentations

Title: Non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland: applying a typology of health worker migration
Humphries N, McAleese S, Tyrrell E, Thomas S, Normand C, Brugha R. 2014. Health Services Research. 14 (S2): 021
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=ephmart

Title: WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.
Brugha, R. 2012.
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/brugha_global_code_hw_recruitment_final.pdf

Title: International Medical Graduates in Ireland: Trends, 2000-2010.
R Brugha
Irish Forum for Global Health Conference, 2012
http://www.doctormigration.com/uploads/1/0/6/5/10659222/doctor_migration_final_ifgh_febr_2012.pdf


Other publications

Title: The Feminisation of Medicine: A Qualitative Study of the Career Experiences of Female Doctors and Implications for Human Resources Management in Ireland.
Author: McAleese S. 2013. Dublin: RCSI.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=phdtheses

Title: Through doctors’ eyes: A qualitative study of hospital doctor perspectives on their working conditions.
Authors: McGowan Y, Humphries N, Burke H, Conroy M, Morgan K. 2013. British Journal of Health Psychology 18 (4): 874–91. doi:10.1111/bjhp.12037.
http://epubs.rcsi.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=psycholart​