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Recommendation 26
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Acknowledged
Explore methods to replicate temporary suspension of NHS pension regulations post-pandemic.
Recommendation
The temporary suspension of regulations governing the administration of NHS pensions, made under the Coronavirus Act 2020, helped to ameliorate this issue during the pandemic. The Government should consider ways to achieve the same outcome now the pandemic is behind us. (Paragraph 104) Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care 61
Government Response Summary
The government's response acknowledged the issue by referring to "Our Plan for Patients," which includes commitments to increasing pension flexibilities to retain senior clinicians, but provided no specific details or commitment to considering ways to achieve the outcome of suspended pension regulations.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The government, in its document, Our Plan for Patients, set out how it would help expand the Health and Care workforce—including by supporting retention of senior staff, using existing staff to the full extent of their professional qualifications, making registration simpler, and stepping up domestic and international recruitment of social care staff. The government has recently published Our Plan for Patients, which sets out ministers’ priorities for the health and social care system for this winter, and next. The plan contains a number of commitments in relation to supporting and expanding the workforce, including: increasing pension flexibilities to retain senior clinicians, ensuring that we use staff to the full extent of their professional qualifications, making it more straightforward for staff train overseas to register, and expanding our recruitment of social care workers, domestically and internationally.