NHS 10-year Workforce Plan

Part of Health and Social Care – in the House of Commons at on 13 January 2026.

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Photo of Karin Smyth Karin Smyth Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

I thank the hon. Member for her almost support for the Bill that we will present later to address much of this problem. Again, we are clearing up the mess we were left by her party, which, by changing the rules in delivering a workforce plan in 2023, essentially ramped up the supply of staff by extrapolating existing trends without any reference to the constraints or needs of the service. Our workforce plan will be different. We do hope for support for the Bill to remove some of the problem with foundation and specialty training places, and we look forward to rigorous debate on that subject.