30 Acknowledged

Ensure 10 Year Workforce Plan aligns growth with service transformation across all CMHS partners.

Recommendation
It is vital that the Government ensures the 10 Year Workforce Plan delivers for Community Mental Health Services. Workforce growth must be aligned with service transformation to ensure that new roles are sustainable and integrated across settings. This must take account of all of the partners involved in the delivery of CMHS, ensuring alignment of workforce planning across the NHS with local authorities and the VCFSE sector, to support integrated service delivery and reduce fragmentation. (Recommendation, Paragraph 195) 79
Government Response Summary
The government partially accepts, stating it is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to ensure the NHS has the right people and skills for transformed services. The plan will address workforce sustainability and articulate changes for different professional groups but does not detail how it will ensure specific alignment, integration, or inclusion of all partners.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government Acknowledged
The government partially accepts this recommendation. The government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create an NHS workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10 Year Health Plan. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the NHS has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it. We are working through how the plan will articulate the changes for different professional groups in the NHS. The plan will set out action to achieve a sustainable NHS workforce model and ask ‘given our reform plan, what workforce do we need, what should they do, where should they be deployed and what skills should they have?’
Addressee Bodies
Department of Health and Social Care
Timeline
Recommendation age 0.7 yr
Report published 02 Dec 2025