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Health Professions: Education and Training

Lords · Question HL12723 · Tabled 5 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 18 Dec 2025

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Asked by Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 27 November (HL11874), whether the forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out specific forecasts for the number of staff the NHS needs over those 10 years; whether t

Answer

Answered by Baroness Merron, 18 Dec 2025

The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it. It will include modelling of the potential size and shape of the future workforce a...