Recommendation 15

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.