Health and social care service leaders are calling for broad reform, better investment and more support for staff in adult social care services.
The NHS long-term workforce plan is about far more than numbers and will factor in skillmix and technology in determining the required size needed.
The NHS faces a ‘significant challenge’ to improve urgent care services with no straightforward solution to improving a complex system.
Workforce and increased capital investment are central to elective recovery and to meeting the efficiency demands.
A sustained increase in NHS revenue and capital funding is needed as one of five key changes called for by the NHS Confederation this week.
The report from left-leaning think tank the Fabian Society - Support guaranteed: the roadmap to a national care service.
NHS England is continuing to aim for a costing submission window opening on 18 September, but will take a final decision by early July.
The digital agenda is increasingly important to NHS trusts.