Workforce planning integral to optimal care

摘要

Workforce planning is a major issue and will be integral to promoting health,reducing health inequalities and delivering the best possible care with the resources available,the Government has said.In its response to the House of Commons Health Committee's report on workforce planning(PJ,31 March,p358),the Government says it beheves that detailed planning should be conducted on a local level,but that the Government should work with the NHS"to ensure that policy direction and national trends are both understood and built into local workforce plans".