Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee

Conclusion 30

Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care Published 8 Jun 2021 Paragraph 183 Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The way that the NHS does workforce planning is at best opaque and at worst responsible for the unacceptable pressure on the current workforce which existed even before the pandemic.

From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 183, 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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