Health and Care Bill: ensuring we have enough staff to meet demand

Health and Care Bill: ensuring we have enough staff to meet demand A coalition of almost 90 health and care organisations – including NHS Providers – calling for stronger provisions on workforce planning in the Health and Care Bill has issued a briefing ahead of committee stage in the House of Lords in January 2022. An amendment has been tabled by Baroness Cumberlege to mandate the regular publication of independent assessments of current and future health and care workforce numbers. This briefing outlines the principles that the coalition believes any other amendment or clause tabled for this purpose needs to meet. NHS Providers

See also:

• The Health and Care Bill: House of Lords, Committee of the whole House: clauses 35-67 and Schedule 6 NHS Providers