This report stems from long-standing concerns about the way in which the NHS educates, trains and uses its staff. Its proposals and recommendations are:
- team working across professional and organisational boundaries
- flexible working to make the best use of the range of skills and knowledge which staff have
- streamlined workforce planning and development which stems from the needs of patients not of professionals
- maximising the contribution of all staff to patient care, doing away with barriers which say only doctors or nurses can provide particular types of care
- modernising education and training to ensure that staff are equipped with the skills they need to work in a complex, changing NHS
- developing new, more flexible, careers for staff of all professions and none
- expanding the workforce to meet future demands.
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2000
- Publication Type: Policy
- Publisher: Department of Health
- Creator: Department of Health
- Next Review Date: 05 May 2010
