Workforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care In a highly critical report, the Health and Social Care Committee finds that workforce burnout across the NHS and social care has reached an emergency level and poses a risk to the future functioning of both services.
Only a total overhaul of workforce planning can provide a solution, say MPs.
Though covid-19 had a huge impact on workforce pressures, the Committee was told of staff shortages across the NHS and social care prior to the pandemic, with such shortages identified as ultimately the biggest driver of workforce burnout.
See also:
- ‘Bitter irony’ that health and care staff are made ill by their work The King's Fund
- NHS and social care staff burn-out at an emergency level - report BBC News
- Staff burnout in health and social care putting safety at risk, say MPs The Guardian
- NHS frontline heading for 'burnout emergency' even before Covid Metro
- NHS and social care staff burnout 'extraordinarily dangerous' to future of services, warns MP Hunt Sky News
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