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The Workforce Directorate (WD) is responsible for all policy that impacts on the working lives of NHS staff, including pay, pensions, education and training and health and well-being. It is also responsible for ensuring that the four pledges to staff set out in the NHS Constitution are met and that we develop the workforce we need for the future success of the service.
The WD is also responsible for the National Leadership Council, which is working to transform leadership across the NHS.
High quality care can only be achieved if we have a high quality workforce to deliver it. There is a proven link between the experience of staff and the experience of patients.
It is essential that we provide the support for the 1.4 million people who work in the NHS delivering services to patients everyday.
Policies and guidance on how to improve the patient environment and the basic care services delivered within that environment.
Following the overwhelming success of last year’s inaugural NHS Leadership Awards, the most prestigious health awards in the country return with the launch of the 2010 nominations website.
Mouchel, a consulting and business services group, have been awarded the contract to set up and run the Centre for Workforce Intelligence, a new body that will provide a single, authoritative and expert resource on workforce development planning for all parts of the NHS and social care system.
This document, together with those on education commissioning for quality and PCT assurance are designed to support SHAs in leading the debate about the future shape of services and what this means for workforce skills, competences, numbers and locations.
There’s been huge progress in bringing fresh faces into the health and social care sectors via a range of apprenticeship schemes, and an event was held on 2 February to celebrate our success. Proving that DH support for apprenticeships comes right from the top, Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Care Services Minister Phil Hope joined apprentices from across the NHS and social care at the event at Richmond House which was held as part of National Apprenticeship Week.
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Four nationwide workshops are being run to help those in the NHS responsible for the health and well-being of staff to implement the recommendations made in the Boorman Review. The workshops will be run in London (24 February), York (4 March), Bristol (11 March) and Derby (17 March)
The NHS Constitution is part of the new Health Act that received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009. The Act aims to help protect children and young people from the harms of tobacco and also places a legal duty on the NHS and its providers to have regard to the NHS Constitution.
To read more about the NHS Constitution visit:
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The Department of Health commissioned an independent review of the health and well-being of staff in November 2008. The final report was published on 23 November 2009 and is available on our website:
Delegates at the NHS Employers annual conference in November 2009 were delighted to see (workforce) experts grilled in the famous Mastermind chair on topical issues including Health and Well-being, the NHS Constitution, Medical Revalidation and Leadership.
