The government, in its document, Our Plan for Patients, set out how it would help expand the Health and Care workforce—including by supporting retention of senior staff, using existing staff to the full extent of their professional qualifications, making registration simpler, and stepping up domestic and international recruitment of social care staff. ... The plan contains a number of commitments in relation to supporting and expanding the workforce, including: increasing pension flexibilities to retain senior clinicians, ensuring that we use staff to the full extent of their professional qualifications, making it more straightforward for staff train overseas to register, and expanding our recruitment of social care workers, domestically and internationally.