The NHS workforce plan is a massive organisational challenge

Delivering the NHS workforce plan depends on implementing major reforms which will challenge professional and organisational power.The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan for England1 makes bold assumptions about productivity improvements, moving care out of hospital, getting better at prevention and early intervention, and breaking down clinical hierarchies and boundaries.The plan estimates that the number of people aged over 85 will grow 55% by 2037 as part of a continuing trend of significant population growth. It is inconceivable that the healthcare needs of this cohort could be met by continuing the NHS’s hospital-centric, sickness-based operating model.Moving care from hospitals to homes, exploiting artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (using software robots to emulate human actions such as putting together a patient discharge summary) and removing barriers that prevent clinicians innovating or working differently are just three of the changes on which the success of the workforce plan depends.The shape of…
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