Experience from previous recessions suggests the recovery of full employment lags a year or so behind economic recovery. Even when private-sector companies are once more successful, there may be a ...

Editor Jaimie Kaffash warns that the new workforce plan falls dangerously short on GP retention and workload It all boils down to workforce. Almost every problem facing GPs and the profession stems ...

On Thursday, three respected independent think tanks – the Health Foundation, the King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust – released their report, Closing the Gap, which calls for an expansion of nurse ...

How current education trends are shaping future workforce readiness, productivity, and long-term business competitiveness—and ...

Serious problems recruiting and retaining children's services staff are resulting in "excessive" workloads among some social workers at a South East council, inspectors have warned. A joint targeted ...

The NHS is having its worst winter in recent memory with strikes, record ambulance and A&E waiting times, and fears of excess deaths caused by delays in treatment. What hope is there for improvement ...

There are three times more jobs that need to be filled in adult social care than there are any other type of healthcare role. Paul O’Rourke explains the urgent need to address staff turnover in social ...

An £600m scheme designed to help with recruitment and retention in social care has been unveiled by the government. Ministers said the fund would support the social care workforce and boost capacity ...

Successive governments have dodged the biggest challenge facing the NHS – and that’s the lack of enough staff to deliver the care patients need. As Rishi Sunak prepares to write another big cheque for ...

An urgent review is needed to look at workforce problems in respiratory care including the upcoming retirement of up to half of the nurse specialists in this field, lung health experts have warned.

Nurses employed in Wales give the NHS an estimated 34,732 extra hours of work every week – the equivalent of 926 full-time nursing posts. That's according to a new report by the Royal College of ...

However, the recession also brings problems that require workforce planning attention. Labour turnover, already low in some organisations, has dropped dramatically, with few people wanting to risk a ...