Get A Shift On

Get A Shift On is a podcast for healthcare professionals who've started thinking "I want out." Real stories from people who left and built something else. You're good at the job. That was never the question. The real question is whether you can keep doing it for another 10 or 15 years, and what it costs your health, your family and your sanity if you stay. Host David Birchmore spent over 25 years in and around healthcare, as a radiographer, managing clinical systems, and in international medical technology and business development, before leaving to build his own business. He coaches healthcare professionals through career change, and he talks to people who've already made it: radiographers, AHPs, nurses, doctors, managers and operational leads who walked away from the healthcare system and took a different path. Walking away from a stable system with a family depending on you is a hard choice. Staying often feels worse. Every episode gets into what that decision actually involves: The commercial worth of your clinical experience, and the transferable skills you don't know you haveThe money question, the real financial numbers, minimum viable income, and how close the fear turns out to be to realityPortfolio careers, and building a business as a clinicianNHS redundancy, and leaving the NHS on your own termsThe identity side nobody warns you about, the bit where you stop being "the radiographer" and work out who you are instead Honest conversations about leaving healthcare and what comes after. For experienced healthcare professionals who've mentally already left, and want to know what to do first. New stories every episode, out weekly.