Train, retain, reform: does the NHS Long Term Plan provide a coherent map for the future? (The King's Fund, 4 July 2023)

Summary

In this article, The King's Fund Chief Executive Richard Murray argues that if the NHS Workforce Plan manages to do the things it says it will do, the NHS could start to overcome the repeated workforce crises that have periodically plagued it over the past 75 years. He highlights that the plan sets out forecasts of future supply and demand for staff, with explanations of how these figures were derived, and that the `action’ it sets out encompasses everyone working in health including those in government.