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The shortage of social care workforce and the pressure that the social care sector is under predates the COVID-19 pandemic. However, since Brexit, international recruitment of health professionals including those working within social care has become problematic. The added challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic has further affected attracting, recruiting and retaining staff within the social care sector. We aimed to explore the evidence for innovations to attract, recruit and retain social care workers and understand which factors influence turnover within the UK context.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant disruption to all levels of education, especially pupils from disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Students aged 16-19 years are at a crucial time in their lives as they transition into further study or employment. The pandemic has brought together a unique set of conditions, not only involving disruption to education, but also to environmental, economic, social and emotional areas of young people’s and their families’ lives. This rapid review investigated strategies to support learning and wellbeing among 16-19 years old learners engaged in full time education within a college or school setting who have experienced significant gaps in their education as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education delivery in higher education institutions was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for healthcare students whose continuing education is imperative to maintain a well-educated healthcare workforce. Emergency remote teaching, without prior contingency planning, was\uddeveloped and adapted promptly for the circumstances. We investigated the effectiveness of alternative education delivery strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy students acquired the relevant knowledge to become effective practitioners, able to translate learning into clinical practice, and how this informs either further planned education delivery or adaptations in emergencies.

Additional file 2. PRISMA-ScR Checklist.docx PRISMA checklist for scoping reviews

Additional file 3. excluded studies.docx Studies excluded (DOCX 27 kb)

Additional file 1. Search History_Medline.docx Illustrative Search Strategy

Additional file 4. Explanations.docx Explanations for why choices affected fertility

Additional file 5. Consequences.docx Feared consequences of infertility

Objective:\ud To identify men's perceptions of the impact of the physical consequences of a radical prostatectomy on their quality of life.\ud \ud Introduction:\ud Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer and second most common cause of cancer death of men in the Western world. Compared to other prostate cancer treatments, trials report worse urinary incontinence and sexual function and similar bowel function among men with prostate-specific antigen detected prostate cancer who underwent radicalized prostatectomy.\ud \ud Inclusion criteria:\ud This review included men of all ages and nationalities who had undergone a radical prostatectomy as treatment for any stage of prostate cancer. It considered studies that investigated:\ud \ud Inclusion criteria:\ud Any setting where the topic was addressed with participants meeting the inclusion criteria was included. The review considered studies that focused on qualitative data including, but not limited to: phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and action research. Studies were included if they reported results relating to one or more of the phenomena of interest. Studies not written in English were excluded.\ud \ud Methods:\ud The search strategy aimed to find published studies from six databases from database inception to November 2017. Methodological quality of studies was independently assessed by two reviewers using the standardized JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Qualitative Research. For data extraction, the standardized Joanna Briggs Institute System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (JBI SUMARI) data extraction tool was used. A meta-aggregation was undertaken and the final synthesis of the findings was reached through discussion. Results are presented as five aggregated qualitative syntheses.\ud \ud Results:\ud Nineteen qualitative studies were included in the review. The five synthesized findings were:\ud \ud Conclusions:\ud Urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction are significant side-effects of radical prostatectomy which have a negative impact on men's quality of life for which they feel ill prepared, and physical and psychosocial support is essential.