Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to require all sustainability and transformation plans to include a detailed workforce plan.

Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) are intended to bring together local National Health Service organisations, to work together to address the health needs of the local area.

As part of that, it is important that STPs consider the needs of their local footprint, and in some areas that will include workforce. Many STP areas have already published detailed workforce requirements as part of their plan.

Health Education England is responsible for ensuring that there is a sufficient future supply of staff to meet workforce requirements, and have published 2015-20 workforce estimates to inform this. This information is available in the following document:

https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/HEE%20commissioning%20and%20investment%20plan.pdf