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PurposeRefugee healthcare professionals (RHPs) may encounter several barriers to employment upon moving to the UK, such as conversion of professional qualifications and a lack of familiarity with the recruitment process. The Building Bridges Programme (BBP) is a London-based multi-agency collaboration which helps refugee healthcare professionals seek employment in the UK National Health Service (NHS).MethodsWe have kept an electronic database of all RHPs who have participated in the BBP from October 2009 to March 2018. Data collected include gender, language spoken, country of initial medical qualification, immigration status, religion, ethnicity and professional work experience. In this paper, we focus on employment outcomes and determine the proportion (%) of RHPs joining the BBP who enter employment in the NHS.ResultsBetween October 2009 and March 2018, the BBP supported 372 refugee doctors, 42 refugee pharmacists, 69 refugee dentists, 25 refugee biomedical scientists, 4 refugee physiotherapists and 83 refugee nurses. The following are the results for the RHPs who settled into a registered NHS position appropriate to their (home country) professional qualifications: 98/372 (26%) doctors, 4/42 (10%), pharmacists, 17/69 (25%) dentists, 1/25 (9%) biomedical scientists, 1/4 (25%) physiotherapists and 2/83 (2%) nurses. The following are the results for the RHPs who settled in associated healthcare profession positions: 109/372 (29%) doctors, 16/42 (38%) pharmacists, 12/69 (17%) dentists, 10/25 (40%) biomedical scientists, 3/4 (75%) physiotherapists and 34/83 (41%) nurses.ConclusionThe BBP provides a useful model that is transferable to other countries. Future studies assessing the utility of such programmes should ensure that the long-term employment outcomes of RHPs are more closely tracked. A key limitation of this paper is the absence of a control group of participants who did not join the BPP, which would help to conclusively demonstrate whether participants who joined our programme had a statistically significant improvement in employment outcomes.

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La matière documentaire produite et rassemblée par Gabriel Tarde dans sa bibliothèque imprimée et sa bibliothèque manuscrite nous plonge dans une archéologie de la pensée d’un savant à la Belle Époque. Au service de l’énonciation de son système de pensée, Tarde actualise la pratique des adversaria de la Renaissance en mettant en place un dispositif de classement et une méthode de travail qui fonctionnent comme une véritable base de données. À mi-chemin entre la copie et le journal intime, entre le catalogue raisonné de bibliothèque et le brouillon d’une œuvre, Tarde enrichit et utilise cette base de données pendant toute sa vie. Elle alimenta toutes ses réflexions personnelles et toutes ses publications, au point que Tarde en parlait comme de son « cerveau extérieur ».