Data Management Plan: What are health professionals' experiences of redeployment

The proposed study aims to explore the lived experiences of healthcare professionals affected by redeployment, focusing on its challenges and opportunities.

The reviewed literature demonstrates a critical gap in our current understanding of the multi-faceted impacts of staff redeployment, particularly prior to the onset of the COVID pandemic. The experience of healthcare assistants is poor within the current literature and this proposal therefore focusses on this workforce group.

Understanding the multifaceted impacts of staff redeployment is essential for future healthcare practices. The insights gained from this study are intended to inform decision-makers and contribute to improving operational strategies within healthcare systems, including within crisis situations. The impact of workforce redeployment has an effect across all aspects of healthcare delivery, from the individual team and service level through to the strategy and policy impacts of governments and national healthcare agencies.

The study will employ a qualitative approach specifically a Husserlian approach of descriptive phenomenology, utilising epistemology is proposed (Rodriguez and Smith, 2018). A purposeful sampling method will be used to recruit participants (Palinkas et al, 2015).