Dr Ruth Abrams

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Talking General Practice · How can we ensure women GPs thrive in general practice? · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Thank you for having me.

It's a real privilege.

I mean, essentially, I've always had a real interest in how our work comes to shape our health, our well-being, and also just very generally our ability to exist in the world.

So long before I came to academia, I worked across a range of different organizations where I was kind of shaping frontline experiences of health and well-being.

And I really wanted to know more from the the kind of organizational level about why this kind of seemed so hard to do and at times why it came across as quite token.

And so that's where my organizational psychology lens came in.

And then I went on to do my PhD, which specifically looked at women in the workplace.

And so moving into NHS research was quite a natural fit and home for me because it's one of our largest employers in the UK here and it's very complex in structure.

So has that inherent interest for me about how we unpick it and figure things out.

And also the workforce is predominantly made up of women as well.

I guess it's something for me that we all come into contact with.

So, you know, we are all patients, every single one of us.

And so that for me, it's such a an important role in society.

It spreads out so far and that for me just felt so inherently interesting that I thought, yeah, that's where I really want to be.

From a personal point of view, it was an opportunity for me to bring various different strands of my previous work together.

So it it kind of had women at work, well-being, the NHS.

And I'd started to see kind of increasing talk about GP well-being just very broadly, particularly kind of after the the pandemic.

In another review I'd been involved in that was led by Heather Gage at the time looking at GP composition.

I'd seen literature there talking about the differences in gender, particularly around team composition, wellbeing, the implications of that.

And so when I started to delve a little bit more into the literature and the evidence space, I kind of began to see the extent of the problem in terms of how differently women are affected by things like career progression, stress and burnout.

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