Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust: Redundancy
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that Torbay Hospital retains adequate staffing levels to ensure the long-term sustainability and safety of acute, urgent and community healthcare services following the implementation of voluntary redundancy schemes.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The National Health Service landscape needs to continually evolve to ensure it can provide high quality patient care.
Any decision to offer a voluntary exit scheme is a matter for local employers and will be based on local service and staffing needs.
Decisions about recruitment are a matter for individual NHS employers, who manage this at a local level to ensure they have the staff they need to deliver safe and effective care.
The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the NHS has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it.
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