A hard hitting parliamentary report has called for changes in workforce planning for the health service.
Staff burnout is an ‘extraordinarily dangerous risk’ to the NHS and social care, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt said.
Employees are so exhausted that a ‘total overhaul’ of the way staff levels are managed is now considered an ‘emergency’. Members told MPs: ‘The emergency that workforce burnout has become will not be solved without a total overhaul of the way the NHS does workforce planning. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has said a lack of staff is one of the biggest causes of workforce burnout in mental health services.The committee 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.
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