Working Well in Healthcare - Paul Gill

Health leaders from across the UK set out their views and vision for developing a sustainable, supported, and skilled healthcare workforce for the future, at an event hosted and organised by Northumbria University.
The half-day, hybrid conference, entitled ‘Working Well in Healthcare: The Changes, Challenges and Opportunities for Developing your Workforce’, brought together expert speakers, senior leaders, people managers and workforce development and education leads to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector, as outlined in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
With speakers including Professor Mark Radford, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer and National Director of Long Term Workforce Plan for Delivery for NHS England; Professor Alison Machin, Chair of the Council of Deans of Health; Professor Laura Serrant, Leadership, Development, and Inclusive Practice Specialist; and Emeritus Professor Debra Porteous, the event focused on the goals of the Plan, which aims to tackle significant challenges around recruiting, developing, training, and retaining people within the NHS.
The conference highlighted several ways that the industry can develop, nurture and support its professionals in reaching their career goals by adopting innovative approaches to work, wellbeing, training, and productivity. It also reinforced the importance of ensuring equity across the workforce when it comes to supporting staff retention and reforming the way the industry recruits, deploys and offers training opportunities.