Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to engage key stakeholders on the assumptions underpinning workforce modelling in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.

The 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out action to create a National Health Service workforce able to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. It is important we do this in a robust and joined up way. We are therefore engaging extensively with partners to ensure this plan delivers for staff and patients.

A formal call for evidence took place between 25 September and 7 November 2025, which provided stakeholders with the opportunity to contribute directly to the plan’s development. This was part of an ongoing and extensive programme of engagement, including several roundtables and an event hosted last year by ministers, which was attended by nearly one hundred representatives of partner organisations.

Insight from this engagement has informed the development of assumptions underpinning the plan’s modelling, which will also be subject to independent scrutiny from external experts.