Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 31
Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care
Published 8 Jun 2021
Paragraph 184
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
It is clear that workforce planning has been led by the funding envelope available to health and social care rather than by demand and the capacity required to service that demand. Furthermore, there is no accurate, public projection of what health and social care require in the workforce for the next five to ten years in each specialism. Without that level of detail, the shortages in the health and care workforce will endure, to the detriment of both the service provision and the staff who currently work in the sector. Annual, independent workforce projections would provide the NHS, social care and Government with the clarity required for long-term workforce planning.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report - Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care (HC 22), paragraph 184, 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.