The NHS will need 190,000 new posts by 2027 based on its current model to meet the demands of a growing and ageing population, according to new research. Health Education England (HEE), the body ...

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton today set out his party’s plans to fix how the NHS trains and retains the doctors, nurses and other staff needed to end long waits for treatment and ...

The retention of ethnically diverse staff needs to be an essential part of the NHS workforce plan as, without the contribution of international workers, the healthcare system is at risk of collapse, a ...

Current NHS workforce plans are "a smart looking car minus the engine" An editorial published by The BMJ today raises important concerns about the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce after a ...

NHS England’s workforce ambitions are based on ‘significant’ substitution of fully-qualified GPs with trainees and SAS doctors, the public spending watchdog has revealed. In a new assessment of the ...

Citing planned sickness absence rates of 4%, the RCN has revealed many health boards are operating with levels significantly ...

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An inquiry into staff burnout found that shortages were a key driver and that NHS workforce planning was ‘at best opaque and at worst was responsible for unacceptable pressure on staff’. A report from ...

"We are sleepwalking into an avoidable crisis of care for older people," the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has warned. It said that a combination of a rapidly ageing population and a lack of NHS ...

When Wes Streeting used the reimbursement of resident doctors’ medical royal college examination and membership fees as a ...

Can apprenticeships solve the NHS workforce crisis? Without proper planning, the commitment to expand medical training outside of traditional routes risks creating a two-tier system. By James Hadlow ...

Healthcare students across the UK are facing uncertainty as recruitment freezes and course pauses leave many without job prospects after graduation. In Wales, paramedic science courses will be ...