Getting the next workforce plan right

The government’s 10 Year Health Plan proposes long-term NHS reforms framed across three shifts: hospital to community care, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention. The policy stresses that success hinges on NHS staff and promises the forthcoming workforce plan will set out how the workforce is to be expanded and enabled to support these changes. This analysis present eight insights from Health Foundation research for the new workforce plan: the assumptions it should rest on, the capabilities needed to deliver it, the policy levers that shape staff supply and the wider workforce dynamics on which delivery depends.