NHS England's modelling for the Long Term Workforce Plan inquiry

This is CSP evidence submitted to the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into NHS England’s modelling for the Long term workforce plan.

Summary of CSP recommendations:

• There are flaws in how workforce supply and demand have been calculated in relation to physiotherapy.
• Where funding training places cannot meet supply targets it should be used to expand staffing numbers of professions like physiotherapy where supply is not the issue.
• There should be a shift in focus away from current establishment and vacancies to the staffing levels required to deliver services to meet population needs and national policies to transform provision