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Workforce

Recommendations related to workforce

8 recommendations 50% accepted

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Government Response

Accepted (4)

Awaiting Response (4)

Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 6 inquiries

Across 6 inquiries

COVID-19 Inquiry Hyponatraemia Inquiry Morecambe Bay Investigation Muckamore Abbey Inquiry Scottish Hospitals Inquiry Urology Services Inquiry

Tagged Recommendations

8 total

SHI-8 Accepted Scottish Hospitals Inquiry

IPC role specifications and staffing levels

I accordingly recommend that priority be given to protecting scarce IPC resources. With that objective in view, what is expected of consideration and advice from individual disciplines at various stages …

- On 13 March 2025, Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray MSP accepted this recommendation (Scottish Government Parliamentary Statement, 13 March 2025). - On 17 September 2025, …

Scottish Government

COVID-M5.8 No Published Response COVID-19 Inquiry

Training in Emergency Procurement and Distribution

The UK government and devolved administrations should each establish a pool of officials who are trained in the emergency procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment. Completion of the training should …

- An implementation status cannot yet be assessed. No government response or recommendation-specific delivery evidence was located by 23 July 2026, so the absence of …

Department of Health and…

AFA-7A Response Pending Urology Services Inquiry

Urology Service

The impact of the Inquiry on the Urology Department has been very significant. The Inquiry recommends that the Urology Service be provided with ongoing specific medical and operational leadership support …

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.

Southern Health and Soci…

R73 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Band 4 associate practitioners

Consideration should be given to enhancing the post of healthcare assistant by creating Band 4 associate practitioners in both hospital and community settings in order to increase the skills of …

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.

Northern Ireland Executi…

R98 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

AHP and social care workforce recruitment

The DoH must devise ways to recruit and retain more allied health professionals and social care staff in the community for autistic people and people with learning disabilities.

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.

Department of Health NI

IHRD-66 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Time for SAI Learning

Clinicians should be afforded time to consider and assimilate learning feedback from SAI investigations and within contracted hours.

- HSC Trusts reported that training on governance and accountability responsibilities for senior managers had been implemented (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of Health NI, March …

HSC Trusts

21 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Consider extending review to other rural services

The challenge of providing healthcare in areas that are rural, difficult to recruit to or isolated is not restricted to maternity care and paediatrics. We recommend that NHS England consider …

- In July 2015, the government stated: "We accept this recommendation in principle" and described the establishment of Vanguard sites to explore new care models …

NHS England

8 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Develop recruitment and retention strategy

The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify a recruitment and retention strategy aimed at achieving a balanced and sustainable workforce with the requisite skills and experience. …

- In July 2015, the government stated that the Trust was developing a recruitment and retention strategy, to be completed by January 2016 (Learning Not …

University Hospitals of …