Department of Health and Social Care -
The international recruitment toolkit, hosted by Skills for Care, has been developed to help adult social care providers decide whether to recruit care workers and senior care workers from overseas, with guidance on how to do so in an ethical and responsible manner. This quick start guide provides a summary of key considerations and is intended to serve as an entry point to the guidance. It is not a substitute for it.
NHS England -
This report sets out 2023 data for all nine Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) indicators. The report enables organisations to compare their performance with others in their region and those providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice, and provides a national picture of WRES in practice, to colleagues, organisations and the public on the developments in the workforce race equality agenda.
NHS Confederation -
Of the 560 NHS leaders who responded to an NHS Confederation survey asking for their views on the current state of equality and diversity across the health service, all said that investment in EDI was integral to improving care. The survey found that 96% of leaders say that the NHS still has issues of discrimination to overcome in access, experience and outcomes for patients.
Nuffield Trust -
The Nuffield Trust is publishing a series of briefings that challenge the NHS and social care manifesto commitments of UK political parties ahead of the approaching general election. The first in the series looks at NHS staffing, setting out a series of policy ‘tests’ that the next government must meet to address some of the longstanding issues to attracting, training and retaining the mix of staff needed to meet the needs of the population.
NHS Survey Coordination Survey -
The statistical results of the 2023 NHS Staff Survey give an insight into the experiences of over 600,000 people working in the NHS in autumn 2023. It covers subjects such as bullying and discrimination, morale, rewards, learning, staff engagement and more.
British Medical Association -
This national guidance outlines how MAPs (medical associate professionals) can work safely and effectively in the NHS and sets out the responsibilities of MAPs including PAs (physician associates) and AA (anaesthesia associates). It uses a traffic light-style system to illustrate what clinical duties MAPs should be able to carry out, as well as those responsibilities from which they should be prohibited.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This report sets out the reasons for changing the amount that members contribute to the NHS Pension Scheme. It takes into account the desirability of not making any changes at this point in time. The report is a statutory report and has been laid before Parliament.
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges -
This document outlines some practical and high-level principles that doctors and healthcare teams should use to determine whether and how to integrate PAs into existing teams. Given that PAs will join more varied and diverse teams than anaesthesia associates (AAs), these principles are directed at the PA workforce.
Department of Health and Social Care -
The NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) has been asked to make pay recommendations for the pay round 2024 to 2025. This written evidence seeks to enable the NHSPRB to make independent recommendations, weighing all of the evidence, within the current economic and fiscal context, along with recruitment and retention trends and staff motivation.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This report contains evidence submitted to the DDRB by the Department of Health and Social Care for the 2024 to 2025 pay round. The DDRB has been asked to make pay recommendations on: uplifts for consultants, doctors and dentists in training, and specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors; uplifts for contractor general medical practitioners and the minimum and maximum pay ranges for salaried general medical practitioners; and the pay element of remuneration for dentists employed by or providing services to the NHS.