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Recommendation 15

Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care Published 8 Jun 2021 Paragraph 90 Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care

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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Staff from overseas play a key role in enabling the NHS and social care to function. Whatever role overseas staff will play in the long-term, they are essential to the health and social care system in the short-term and medium-long term because any 56 Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care move to shift to more domestic supply is likely to take time. Workforce planning, in both the NHS and social care therefore will need to include strategies for the recruitment, transition, and training of overseas workers in the health and care sector.

From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 90, 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.
  • 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.

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