As workforce gaps in the NHS, and other healthcare systems around the world widen, the need to improve staff retention has become an ever more pressing concern. Yet work-life balance issues continue to drive staff away from the service.

What is the imperative to get flexible working right, and what can be done to remove the barriers facing healthcare workers seeking to change the way they work?

Joining us in the discussion are;

Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief of The BMJ

Rachel Hutchings, fellow at the Nuffield Trust

Sarah Sweeney, interim chief executive, National Voices

Farzana Hussain, a GP in Newham, London

Thea Stein, chief executive of Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust