Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 8
Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Published 8 Jun 2021
Paragraph 61
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Improvements to workplace culture have been made, but equally, there is more work to be done. Embedding and facilitating cultures which support compassionate leadership must be at the heart of that work. There is a strong appetite for that leadership from both managers and staff, but structural barriers remain. The Department, the NHS and individual trusts need to focus on removing those barriers so that their leaders can lead to their full potential. The establishment of statutory Integrated Care Systems provides an opportunity for those systems to lead a transformation of support for NHS leaders in their areas that includes mental health support, development of proper career structures, and a review of targets.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 61, 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.