Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 14
14
Create sustainable children's health workforce with specific recruitment targets in the NHS Plan.
Recommendation
The Government must take the opportunity presented by the forthcoming NHS 10 Year Workforce Plan to create a sustainable and well-resourced children’s health workforce. While we understand the Government’s desire for the workforce plan to go beyond numbers, a plan that does not set out a clear, achievable and funded road map for addressing staff shortages would completely lack credibility. We recommend that the workforce plan contains specific targets for recruitment to all disciplines that deliver care in the first 1000 days that, as a minimum, ensure that safe staffing ratios are delivered in all settings. (Recommendation, Paragraph 77)