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NHS Redesign Necessary to Improve Patient Care, says Nuffield Trust


According to the Nuffield Trust’s latest report, expanding the skills of existing staff is the best way to develop the NHS workforce for the 21st century. Here we explore the think-tank’s recommendations.


Equipping NHS nursing, community and support staff with additional skills to deliver care is the best way to develop the capacity of the health service workforce, and will be vital to enable the NHS to cope with changed patient demand in the future.


However, expanding the skills of the non-medical workforce in this way also


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presents big organisational challenges for NHS Trusts, and will not be easy to achieve in the current financial context. Despite this, changing staffing should be considered an urgent, ‘must- do’ priority for Trusts.


These are the conclusions of a new report, ‘Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need’,


from the Nuffield Trust, which was commissioned by NHS Employers to examine how best NHS staffing can be reorganised to support new ways of delivering care.


The study draws on a survey of local Health Education England (HEE) leaders, case studies around the country, an expert seminar,


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