Workforce

Over a million people in England work for the NHS, providing high quality care every day. Government, NHS arm's length bodies, unions, professional colleges, and regulators all have a role to play in workforce matters and employment relations. But NHS provider boards must have the autonomy to fulfil their responsibilities in leading confident, well-run organisations and supporting, developing, and empowering their workforces.

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To provide for the future we need to support an empowered and affordable NHS workforce with the right skills and in the right numbers.

Priorities for the NHS workforce – we have identified five priorities for the NHS workforce:

Lead cultural change by example and support staff engagement
Recognise that the NHS relies on dynamic, capable, and diverse local leadership
Make pay, terms and conditions fit for purpose
Base staffing decisions on local clinical judgement, not blunt national targets
Let NHS providers drive workforce planning

Pay review bodies – in respect of making pay, terms and conditions fit for purpose we submit evidence annually to the pay review bodies for the NHS. For the pay round for 2015/16 we submitted evidence to special remits looking at reform of terms and conditions in light of seven day services.

Equality and diversity – we believe there is a business case for race equality, and equality more generally. We are working in particular to support providers in respect of the new Workforce Race Equality Standard.

More clinical placements welcome but workforce challenges remain

News 09 Aug

We respond to the Department of Health commitment to expand medical education places

Alliance warns patients at risk in Brexit negotiations

News 01 Aug

Brexit Health Alliance publishes five key priorities to safeguard UK healthcare sector post Brexit

Impossible for government to meet mental health commitments without addressing staff shortfall

News 31 Jul

We respond to the mental health workforce plan published by Health Education England.

On the day briefing: Mental health workforce plan

Briefing 31 Jul

We summarise Health Education England's mental health workforce plan for England

NHS ability to recruit and retain staff as serious as funding concerns

News 25 Jul

We respond to data published by NHS Digital which shows there were 30,613 advertised vacancy full-time equivalents published in England in March 2017.

Growing gap between government ambitions for mental health and the reality of care on the frontline

News 07 Jul

NHS Providers publishes our 'The State of the NHS Provider Sector' report with a focus on the pressures overwhelming mental health services

Improving junior doctors’ working lives is a priority

News 04 Jul

GMC annual survey finds over half of doctors still working over rostered hours at least weekly.

Worrying rise in the number of nurses and midwives leaving the UK register

News 03 Jul

We respond to new analysis published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council on NHS leavers

Making the NHS a great place to work for junior doctors

Blog 30 Jun

Paul Myatt, our policy advisor for workforce, discusses some of the work undertaken by trusts to improve the working lives of junior doctors

NHS Providers welcomes support for trusts to improve staff retention.

News 29 Jun

Saffron Cordery responds to NHS Improvement's new staff retention programme to bring down NHS leaver rates

Winter warning: we need to act now to manage next winter’s risk

Blog 27 Jun

Chris Hopson warns that there is trouble ahead unless we act now to manage the risk for next winter.

Winter warning: managing risk in health and care this winter

Report 27 Jun

Our new report highlights concerns of trust leaders that extra funding for social care, partly allocated to ease winter pressure on the health service, is not consistently getting through to the NHS

Summary of statutory board meetings: the CQC and HEE, June 2017

Briefing 20 Jun

A summary of the Care Quality Commission and Health Education England's June board meetings.

We need to talk about the future of the NHS

Blog 05 Jun

Chris Hopson writes that the general election campaign has failed to address the demand and workforce issues facing the long term future of the health service

Investing in success – NHS priorities for politicians over the next five years

Blog 24 May

Senior public affairs manager Ferelith Gaze discusses the key NHS priorities facing the incoming government

CLOSED: Roundtable on social care funding and managing NHS winter pressures

Meetings 23 May

23 May 2017, 10:00

Central London, location TBC

A roundtable to explore the extent to which the additional funding for social care is benefitting the NHS.

Contacts

Paul Myatt

Policy advisor - workforce 020 7304 6815 paul.myatt@nhsproviders.org