Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee

Recommendation 11

Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care Published 8 Jun 2021 Paragraph 68 Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Committee welcomes the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), along with the People Plan, as an important step towards an NHS which offers equal opportunities to all its staff. We were pleased to hear in our oral evidence session that work had begun to provide similar information to the WRES in social care. This year’s WRES report concludes that ‘now is the time to translate the data to actions.’ We agree. Part of this must be to ensure that the boards of the new ICSs appropriately represent the populations they serve.

From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 68, 8 June 2021

Government response

The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2022 (deadline 8 August 2021).

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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.
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