Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 4
Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Published 8 Jun 2021
Paragraph 38
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We welcome the additional support provided to health and care staff during the pandemic. However, we conclude that such additional support will need to be maintained during the recovery period and beyond to stop further staff from leaving. Furthermore simply offering support services, however important, is not on its own enough. The Department and employers need to ensure that those services are accessible to all and used by all who need them. This will require removing barriers to seeking help, and embedding a culture where staff are explicitly given permission and time away from work to seek help when it is needed.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 38, 8 June 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2022 (deadline 8 August 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The document is the government's response, published on 15 February 2022 by the Department of Health and Social Care, to the Health and Social Care Committee's report on workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care; the page itself does not set out the government's position.
- The response is a 36-page document (Command Paper CP 620), available in HTML and PDF formats, and it applies to England.
- The Committee's report was published on 8 June 2021, and the government's response followed on 15 February 2022.
- The web page provided contains no text on which recommendations the government accepts or declines, or on any commitments; readers need the full response document for those.