The NHS workforce plan: promoting health and social care in secondary schools

The as yet unknown effects of technology and changes in roles and service delivery models notwithstanding, it seems likely that many more people are going to be needed to deliver NHS and social care roles in the coming decades. The NHS workforce plan envisages many more training places,1 but there is concern that there will be insufficient applicants.Given that the state is a near monopoly supplier of education, it is missing an opportunity to promote health and social care careers in all secondary schools. There has been no shame for successive governments in trying to shape the future workforce with proficiency in English and maths emphasised in primary schools and science and technology added in secondary school (the STEM approach). But there is a substantial opportunity that is being missed to routinely direct pupils of all aptitudes and abilities towards futures in health and social care, spanning the gamut from…
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