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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 January 2025

Debate

Health and Social Care: Winter Update

Contribution

The noble Baroness is quite right. It is not just about recruitment, although it gives me the opportunity to speak also on the previous point made by the noble Lord about the importance and effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams. Again, the workforce we need must be one that can provide for the 10-year plan, and that plan means that some things will take 10 years, while we are already doing other things. We have to make sure we have the right training. On the point about retention, we know what staff are saying to us: their morale is low; they are under pressure and feel exposed, and, in many cases, they feel frightened. I am shocked to find the amount of racism that is experienced. It is not possible to overlook any of these things, so in the coming year, as we give more information on the workforce plan—and I am looking forward to doing so—it will be a workforce for now and the future, not the past.

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