In a highly critical report, the Health and Social Care Committee called for immediate action to support exhausted staff who have worked throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
The MPs said that, while issues such as excessive workloads may not be solved overnight, staff should be given the confidence that a long-term solution is in place.
"The way that the NHS does workforce planning is at best opaque and at worst responsible for the unacceptable pressure on the current workforce which existed even before the pandemic," the study said."It is clear that workforce planning has been led by the funding envelope available to health and social care rather than by demand and the capacity required to service that demand.
Tory MP and former health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who is chairman of the committee, said:"Workforce burnout across the NHS and care systems now presents an extraordinarily dangerous risk to the future functioning of both services. "Staff face unacceptable pressure with chronic excessive workload identified as a key driver of workforce burnout.
"It will simply not be possible to address the backlog caused by the pandemic unless these issues are addressed."Those plans should be guided by the need to ensure that the long-term supply of doctors, nurses and other clinicians is not constrained by short-term deficiencies in the number trained."
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