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Mashup Score: 22David Oliver: The risk assessment for NHS England’s long term workforce plan should worry doctors - 12 month(s) ago
In June 2023 NHS England (NHSE) published its long awaited and serially delayed long term workforce plan for the NHS.1 In the 10 months since then we’ve seen pay disputes, difficult contract negotiations, strike action, and ballots of clinical staff.234 While the BMA’s Consultants Committee has now settled a long running contract dispute with the government,5 its Junior Doctors Committee seems no closer to a negotiated settlement.6 We continue to face serious problems with workforce retention and morale, as well as staffing and rota gaps across a range of clinical disciplines—in nursing even more so than medicine.7 Last month the BMA published a paper on “tackling medical attrition,”8 estimating that in 2022-23 some 15 000 to 23 000 doctors had left the NHS workforce, that replacing them would cost £1.6bn to £2.4bn, and that ever more doctors were taking steps to leave. It called for urgent action on retention through a variety of practical actions. There’s also been …
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Mashup Score: 6
Concerns have been raised over the risk assessment carried out for the NHS long term workforce plan, with a senior doctor accusing NHS England of not putting enough consideration into the impact the plan would have on staff. The risk assessment, obtained through a freedom of information request, shows that NHS England outlined 12 risks that could affect the plan before it was published in June last year.1 These risks included that government decisions on “pay, terms and conditions, [and] service ambition” could “destabilise industrial relations” and that the strategy for the NHS was not clear beyond the long term plan, making it “harder to forecast workforce demand levels” …
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Mashup Score: 22David Oliver: The risk assessment for NHS England’s long term workforce plan should worry doctors - 1 year(s) ago
In June 2023 NHS England (NHSE) published its long awaited and serially delayed long term workforce plan for the NHS.1 In the 10 months since then we’ve seen pay disputes, difficult contract negotiations, strike action, and ballots of clinical staff.234 While the BMA’s Consultants Committee has now settled a long running contract dispute with the government,5 its Junior Doctors Committee seems no closer to a negotiated settlement.6 We continue to face serious problems with workforce retention and morale, as well as staffing and rota gaps across a range of clinical disciplines—in nursing even more so than medicine.7 Last month the BMA published a paper on “tackling medical attrition,”8 estimating that in 2022-23 some 15 000 to 23 000 doctors had left the NHS workforce, that replacing them would cost £1.6bn to £2.4bn, and that ever more doctors were taking steps to leave. It called for urgent action on retention through a variety of practical actions. There’s also been …
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Mashup Score: 0New workforce dynamics call for new approaches to excellence - 2 year(s) ago
Explore how healthcare organizations are maintaining a culture of performance excellence amid workforce shortages and disruptions caused by the pandemic, throug
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Mashup Score: 1Resources page - 2 year(s) ago
This edition of the Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) resources page is focused on further information to support the editorial by Alison Twycross and Jane Wray ‘NHS (National Health Service (NHS) England Long-term Workforce Plan: Can this deliver the workforce transformation so urgently needed or is it just more rhetoric?’ EBN has published a number of commentaries that provide useful additional information relating to the UK NHS workforce.
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Mashup Score: 0AI might help health care's labor shortage, industry leaders say - 2 year(s) ago
Local health care leaders at the City Club talked about the many reasons physicians are leaving the profession.
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Mashup Score: 0HHS to invest $100M to bolster nursing workforce, training - 2 year(s) ago
The Biden-Harris Administration is investing $100 million to aid the nursing workforce shortage and support training.
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Mashup Score: 0Welsh Government releases first-of-its-kind nurse vacancy data - 2 year(s) ago
The Welsh Government has for the first time released ‘experimental’ data outlining nursing vacancies across the country.
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Mashup Score: 0Why spending more on hospitals won’t fix the NHS - 2 year(s) ago
There are brightly painted bicycles in the corridors at Aarhus hospital in Denmark. The doctors and nurses use them to get around the 500,000 sq m estate, which
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Mashup Score: 0
Workforce planning within health and social care fails to consider risk ‘until something goes wrong’, a nursing academic has warned. In a presentation hosted by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) last week, Professor Alison Leary stressed that the workforce must be recognised as ‘the biggest safety critical asset that we have’ and not as an… Read more
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In a presentation hosted by the @TheQNI last week, Professor @alisonleary1 stressed that the #workforce must be recognised as ‘the biggest safety critical asset that we have’ and not as an ‘expensive commodity’. #nursingworkforce View the full story ⬇️ https://t.co/Q800ARjsLA https://t.co/esTFKi0ULT
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"I have serious doubts about the rigour of the risk assessment, the lack of impact assessment, and the failure to anticipate backlash." The risk assessment for NHS England’s long term #workforce plan should worry doctors, says @mancunianmedic https://t.co/fdjzvGP9l1