Who Cares? Examining the Health and Social Care Workforce

Addressing recruitment and retention problems in the health and social care workforce is now a key priority. However, there are shortages in some key staff groups, for example, nursing and social workers. Efforts to address these problems have focused primarily on boosting staff numbers, but in order really to address these issues for the long term, we need to think more radically about how the health and social care workforce is configured.