Abstract
Poor workforce planning is the biggest internal threat to the sustainability of the NHS, a major parliamentary inquiry has concluded. The report, from the House of Lords committee on the long term sustainability of the NHS, highlighted concern at the absence of any comprehensive, national, long term NHS workforce strategy.1 “Much of the work being carried out to reshape the workforce is fragmented across different bodies with little strategic direction from the Department of Health,” it said. The inquiry report, published on Wednesday 5 April, said that Health Education England (HEE) was “unable to deliver” and recommended that the organisation should be “transformed into a new single, integrated strategic workforce planning body for health and social care.” “This will enable it to produce and implement a joined-up place-based national strategy …
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