NHS: Staff
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to engage physicians on the assumptions underpinning the modelling of workforce numbers in the 10-Year Workforce Plan.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out action to create a National Health Service workforce able to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. To ensure that the plan is robust and delivers for staff and patients, extensive engagement with partners, including physicians and their representatives, has been carried out. A formal call for evidence took place between 25 September and 7 November 2025, which provided stakeholders with the opportunity to contribute directly to the plan’s development. This was part of an ongoing programme of engagement, including a number of roundtables and an event hosted last year by ministers, which was attended by nearly one hundred representatives of partner organisations.
Insight from this engagement has informed the development of assumptions underpinning our modelling, which will also be subject to independent scrutiny from external experts.
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