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Integrated workforce planning: Learning from early adopters of the new health and social care workforce plans

15 November 2024, 11-12.30pm

In this insightful session, we heard from early adopters following the launches of both the Comprehensive Workforce Plan for the NHS and the Social Care (SfC) Workforce Plan.

This event brought together key stakeholders from across the NHS and Adult Social Care sector to discuss how workforce integration is advancing in our health and social care systems.

With the focus on retaining existing talent and maximising the impact of these workforce plans, our speakers and expert panel shared best practice strategies being implemented to create a sustainable workforce.

It included a panel discussion at the end, addressing questions from attendees.

Co-chairs for the session wereProfessor Vic Rayner OBE, Chair of Care Provider Alliance (CPA) and Chief Executive of The National Care Forum (NCF) and Rebecca Smith, Director of System and Social Partnership, NHS Employers.

Contributors included:

  • Deborah McNally, Locality Manager and Leadership Development Programme Co-ordinator, Brandon Trust
  • Joshua Vickers, Locality Manager and Data Project Manager, Brandon Trust
  • Kate Sibson, Commissioning Programme Manager Adults and Health Directorate, Leeds City Council
  • Jane Brightman, Director of Workforce Strategy, Skills for Care
  • Carolyn Nice, Director of Adults, Health and Wellbeing, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and Workforce Lead, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
  • Tom Surrey, Director - Adult Social Care Workforce and Policy, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)

This webinar was aimed at leaders involved in decision making about ICS workforce issues, those from ICBs, ICPs, local authorities and adult social care providers

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Integrated workforce planning in health and social care: Learning from early adopters

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Presentation slides from learning summit

Summary report from learning summit

Q&A from learning summit

Brandon Trust’s Leadership program

Leeds Council Outcomes tool

Useful links §

Home - A Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England

Video case studies including Leeds Community Health & Wellbeing Service pilot: Hear from others

Skills England report: Skills England: driving growth and widening opportunities

Skills for Care report: The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England, 2024

Care and health career academies: What good looks like | Local Government Association

Skills for Care: Digital technology in social care

Skills for Care Wellbeing resources

Oxford Statement on the responsible use of generative AI in Adult Social Care | Ethics in AI

Using AI to transform wound care in the community | NHS Employers

Employment Rights Bill: factsheets - GOV.UK

National Health Service Act 2006

All links relevant to NHS long term workforce plan NHS England:§