The “biggest workforce training expansion” in the history of the health service will be taking place according to the Prime Minister, Mr. Rishi Sunak’s NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
The Prime Minister described the goal of his 15-year plan to “build the health workforce of the future.” While describing this 15-year-long plan, he highlighted the country’s dependence on “overseas workers.”
In the UK, skill shortages have been affecting the economy for a long time. And reasons like low birth rate, aging population, and a big retirement age group contribute to a workforce shortage. Therefore, hiring international workers seems an effective way to deal with the current scenario rather than hiring at home.
Mr. Sunak stated in “The Sunday Times” that this week, “we’ll introduce a number of new policies to improve the way we offer healthcare in partnership with the NHS.
“The NHS Long Term Workforce Strategy will represent the largest increase of workforce training in NHS history. It will guarantee that we retain, train, restructure, and utilize our skilled and seasoned team to the fullest.
In order to speed up the transition process from the classroom to the clinic, we will be using the newest technologies and innovations. Executing new strategies will assist in offering quality treatment to patients for a speedy recovery.
We know that training these employees, who fall under the most highly skilled in our society, takes time. Therefore, in order to provide the NHS with assurance, the plan will be in place for 15 years.
As mentioned earlier, the latest technologies and innovations will be utilized to streamline the journey from classroom to clinic to offer the treatment patients need. And further, he added that it would be supported by government money and assistance, balancing it against broader economic constraints.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Sunak, called this plan the foundation of the Government’s long-term vision for a better, more versatile, and dynamic healthcare system. He added, “I feel a great responsibility to ensure that our NHS endures.”
In a serious escalation of their disagreement with the Government over pay and staffing, junior physicians in England declared just days prior that they would organize a five-day strike the following month.
The British Medical Group has announced that from July 13 to July 18, its members will be on strike, which the group believes will be the longest single period of industrial action in the health sector’s history.
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