Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 27
Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Published 8 Jun 2021
Paragraph 166
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
(a) Alongside […] a long term funding settlement we strongly believe the Government should publish a 10 year plan for the social care sector as it has done for the NHS. The two systems are increasingly linked and it makes no sense to put in place long term plans for one without the other. Failure to do so is also likely to inhibit reform and lead to higher costs as workforce shortages become more pronounced with higher dependency on agency staff. Reducing the 30% turnover rates typical in the sector will also require a long term, strategic approach to social care pay and conditions. (Social care: funding and workforce, Third Report of Session 2019–21, Paragraph 37).
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 166, 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.