NHS: Staff
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the devolution of NHS workforce planning.
For the first time, there is now a publication of a national workforce plan for England setting out the investment that will be made in the education and training of the workforce. In developing the plan, Health Education England (HEE) has worked closely with local National Health Service providers, commissioners and other partners to ensure that it reflects the future workforce that is needed to deliver health services.
HEE has published three workforce plans to date, in December 2013, December 2014 and most recently in May 2016. The latest plan sets out the education commissions that HEE will make in 2016/17. The latest Workforce plan can be found at:
HEE is working with partners to strengthen local arrangements for workforce planning for example, it is establishing Local Workforce Action Boards which will be aligned to Sustainability and Transformation Plan geographies, thereby ensuring that workforce will be at the heart of decision making and implementation of future service transformation.