Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 20
Eighth report: NHS capital expenditure and financial management
Published 8 Jul 2020
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The NHS Long Term Plan acknowledged in 2019 the need to increase staff numbers. The NHS intended to publish a people plan in 2019 to set out its strategy for the future NHS workforce to meet its service commitments and to support the NHS Long Term Plan. However, publication of the people plan has been repeatedly delayed, most recently because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and only an interim, non-costed plan has been published to date.45 The Department was unable to give a definitive timeframe for when the people plan will be published.46
From: Public Accounts Committee, Eighth report: NHS capital expenditure and financial management (HC 344), 8 July 2020
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 8 September 2020, 2245 days ago.