Where is the workforce plan?

I have tried on many occasions to ask this: where is the workforce plan?Where is the workforce plan?How can any organisation be expected to function when it has no idea of the number of people it requires to perform its role and meet its objectives?The UK government set the budget for the NHS up to 2023-24 before it tasked the Independent Pay Review Body two years ago. Any statement from the health secretary saying that the Independent Pay Review Body is free of government interference is simply untrue. Additionally, the Independent Pay Review Body has repeatedly been sent remit letters far too late for the April pay rounds; the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England have added to the problem by submitting their written evidence up to a month late.According to my (Conservative) MP, the government simply provides the funding: it is, apparently, NHS England’s responsibility to…
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