New horizons: what can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries? – Nuffield Trust
This report finds that perceptions of care work as low skilled continue to persist, despite the pandemic highlighting just how vital care workers are. In recent years there has been increased debate around the ‘professionalisation’ of this staff group, which generally refers to the creation of a statutory register of staff and their professional regulation. This report reviews what the evidence shows about the professionalisation of care workers in other countries.

Workload issues affecting GP trainees’ plans for their future careers – The King’s Fund 

For the fifth time since 2016, The King’s Fund has surveyed GP trainees on their plans for their own careers and on the future of general practice more generally. Each time we ask questions about trainees’ intended future working patterns, one year, five years and ten years after completing their qualifications. This year’s survey of GP trainees shows excessive workload and intensity is having a significant impact on how trainees plan to work in future.

Health and care workforce in Europe: time to act – World Health Organization. European Region

All countries of the WHO European Region currently face severe challenges related to the health and care workforce (‎HCWF)‎. This report focuses on identifying effective policy and planning responses to these HCWF challenges across the Region. The report presents an overview of the HCWF situation in the Region (‎focusing on medical doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists, for whom data are available)‎and identifies relevant policy options, their expected benefits and potential facilitators or barriers to successful implementation. Examples of sound evidence-informed practices in countries are also provided.

The latest from NHS Employers

• Participating organisations announced for the Diversity in Health and Care Partners Programme The programme supports health and care organisations to create more inclusive workplace cultures, where difference is welcomed and celebrated.
• Reducing time to hire for young people An opportunity to discuss processes around the recruitment of young people and how employment checks could be simplified safely and efficiently.
• SAS week 2022 Join us for SAS week, 10-14 October. A week-long celebration to promote and highlight the value of the specialty and specialist (SAS) doctors.
• Our response to the NHS Pension Scheme consultation Read our response to the consultation on extending the temporary suspension of abatement and the 16-hour rule until 31 March 2023.
• A series of conversations: nursing associates Kate Ward, a nursing associate at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, discusses her role in mental health and LD services.

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• New national deadline to eliminate two-year waiters NHS England has issued a new deadline to treat patients who have been waiting more than two years for treatment, a month after saying it had ‘virtually eliminated’ the longest waits, it has emerged.
• Exclusive: Trust could be split after crucial CQC inspection, sources warn An imminent inspection of a special measures trust’s leadership could prompt the provider to be broken up, senior figures have warned.
• Campaigning MP to chair foundation trust A long-serving Labour MP is leaving the Commons after 17 years and will join a mental health trust as its chair, HSJ can reveal.
• BMA ‘acting like football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.
• Lawyers warned trust that staff could ‘pick and choose’ documents for coroners An ambulance trust accused of withholding key evidence from coroners was previously warned its staff needed training to ‘understand the real risk of committing criminal offences’ in relation to inquests into patient deaths.
• BMA ‘acting life football agents’ inflating extra shift pay, say trust chiefs A row has broken out between trust bosses and the British Medical Association over the doctors’ union’s campaign to drive up consultants’ hourly pay rates for extra shifts, HSJ has learned.