Second Annual Workforce Plan for England

Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

HEE publish the second Workforce Plan for England, which sets out the £5bn investment to be made in education and training programmes for 2015/16.It is built upon the needs of local employers, commissioners and other stakeholders who, as members of the Local Education Training Boards (LETBs), have shaped the thirteen local plans that are the bedrock of this plan for England. The priorities in the plan are the priorities of the NHS, identified locally and nationally by employers, colleges and other stakeholders.This plan has allowed significant expansion the future workforce in key priority areas, such as nursing, paramedic, primary care and emergency medicine.It also:sets out clearly the education and training commissions we intend to make in 2015/16;explains how these decisions were made;provides the aggregate number of commissions for each profession and the trend increases and decreases within and between key groups;provides detailed analysis for a small number of priority areas and professions, setting out what we are doing to address immediate workforce pressures, the education and training commissions we are making for the future, and the actions we are taking to support further transformation.

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