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Recommendation 33
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Acknowledged
Expand places at 2018 cohort medical schools starting academic year 2023–24.
Recommendation
The 2018 cohort of medical schools are proving a success story in terms of widening participation, and in producing cohorts of local doctors who are more likely to stay local to their training centre once they have graduated. The Government must commit to expanding the number of places available at the 2018 cohort of medical schools, starting in the academic year 2023–24. (Paragraph 127) 62 Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care
Government Response Summary
The government agrees with the need for robust, long term, workforce planning and have commissioned two pieces of work to support this: the HEE led long term strategic framework (Framework 15) and the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan, and committed to publishing the Long Term Workforce Plan shortly.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
We agree this recommendation. We agree with the need for robust, long term, workforce planning and have commissioned two large pieces of work to support this ambition: the Health Education England (HEE) led long term strategic framework (Framework 15) for workforce and the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan. The Long Term Workforce Plan will include independently- verified projections for the number of doctors, nurses and other professionals that will be needed in 5, 10 and 15 years’ time, taking full account of improvements in retention and productivity. We have committed to publishing the Long Term Workforce Plan shortly. HEE’s work in developing Framework 15 has already supported the development of the Long Term Workforce Plan. Framework 15 is designed to help ensure the workforce we invest in today is fit for the future and makes the most of every pound spent. This will be achieved through setting out clarity of service ambitions and shared, explicit assumptions about the likely impact of key drivers of change on both demand and supply for the health and regulated social care workforce. The development of HEE’s Framework 15 commenced with a large-scale public ‘Call for Evidence’ to identify the factors that may have the greatest impact on demand for the health and regulated social care sector over the next fifteen years, and what they might mean for workforce supply. HEE and partners subsequently held over a thousand different conversations, including deliberative events creating the time and space for people to develop a vision for the future and identify the workforce required to deliver it. In addition, HEE held a series of round tables to explore in more depth particular issues or perspectives, including the views of users, patients and people who need care and