In July, 2025, the UK Government published the long-awaited National Health Service (NHS) 10-year plan for England centred on three major shifts:1 from hospital to community; analogue to digital; and ...

This morning, The Topol Review was announced, detailing how we should prepare the NHS clinical workforce to deliver healthcare's digital future. Led by California-based cardiologist, geneticist, and ...

Looking after the NHS workforce is not only an ethical imperative but also a sound investment and must be a top priority, say experts in the third report of The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS ...

The Government recently released its long-awaited plan for solving deep-rooted staffing problems in the NHS. The Week takes a look at whether it can deliver. Why do we need a workforce plan? The NHS ...

Recruitment, training and retention of NHS staff and digital transformation will be put at the heart of the NHS in England, under new reforms announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social ...

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 ...

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 ...

OF every 17 Britons in work, one is on the payroll of the National Health Service (NHS). Despite the huge headcount, more workers are needed. One in every 11 NHS posts in England is vacant; shortages ...

Out of around 1.5 million people who work for NHS England, around 330,000 of those are foreign nationals, with staff reporting over 200 different nationalities. That means that roughly one in five ...

"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 ...

Just two in five staff at the University Hospitals Sussex Trust are doctors or nurses, new figures show. A think tank said the recent expansion of non-medical roles in the NHS has come before ...