NHS needs a ‘fit-for-purpose’ workforce strategy

Action is needed to help the NHS need create a sustainable, skilled and ‘fit-for-purpose’ health and care workforce, the Lancet Commission has said.

By 2022, each devolved nation’s workforce strategy should encompass: the ‘shape’ of the future of its workforce, from training to retirement; consider the entire workforce, rather than isolating professional groups; prioritise all staff’s health and wellbeing, including the needs of informal carers.