NHS Workforce Plan puts £2.4bn into training and education

NHS Workforce Plan puts £2.4bn into training and education

The long-awaited NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published June 30, sets out how the NHS will address existing vacancies, and recruit and retain hundreds of thousands more staff over the next 15 years.

The government has backed the plan with over £2.4 billion to fund additional education and training places over five years on top of existing funding commitments.

NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard described the Plan as “a once in a generation opportunity to put staffing on a sustainable footing for the years to come”. The Plan focusses on retaining existing talent alongside the biggest recruitment drive in health service history.

For the first time the Plan sets out long term workforce projections. Staffing shortfalls have been an issue since the foundation of the NHS and vacancies now stand at 112,000. The growing and ageing population, coupled with new treatments and therapies, means that without action the gap could grow to 360,000 by 2037, says the NHS.

By 2031 the Long Term Workforce Plan aims to:

• double medical school training places to 15,000
• increase the number of GP training places by 50 per cent to 6,000
• almost double the number of adult nurse training places, with 24,000 more nurse and midwife training places a year.

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