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Issue 154
Social Care 'Ignored' in Government's NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
Radical plans to improve the NHS will be spoiled by the government’s failure to carry out matching reform to the social care sector, providers have warned. As part of the government's Long Term Workforce Plan published earlier this week, a record numbers of doctors, nurses, dentists and other healthcare staff will be trained in and are expected to be employed in the NHS in England over the coming years through sweeping plans to improve staffing in the health service.
The possibility of cutting the amount of time doctors spend in medical school, driving up the number of home-grown NHS staff and ramping up apprenticeship places are among the ideas to deal with severe staff shortages in the NHS. However, providers say the Government’s £2.4bn plan for the NHS is fundamentally flawed by a frightening lack of mention of social care. And that without similar reform to social care, so that the two can work side by side, the NHS reform is dead in the water.
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