The RCP has responded to the Health and Social Care Committee’s report following their inquiry into Workforce: Recruitment, Training, and Retention in Health and Social Care.
The Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA) and Royal College of Physicians (RCP) welcome the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) updated position on Physician Associate (PA) regulation and wider regulatory reform.
The RCP is one of several medical royal colleges and Faculties who have signed a joint statement urging the next Prime Minister to make health and care a priority.
More than half (52%) of advertised consultant physician posts in England and Wales went unfilled last year, according to a UK-wide census of doctors conducted by the RCP, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
A letter reminding employers to support doctors who contribute their time for the wider benefit of the health system has this week been sent to NHS chief executives and medical directors.
In response to a letter from NHS England to NHS Trust leaders on ‘enabling the workforce for elective recovery’, the RCP has once again called for clear plans, regularly reviewed, to increase recruitment and improve retention of staff.
