Supporting and growing the respiratory physiotherapy workforce
In summer 2023, NHS England published the Long-Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) ‘the first comprehensive workforce plan’ for the health service, which is intended to deliver sustainable staffing and improvements in patient care. As ever, when governments change, workplans, timelines and progress across all departments can be disrupted. Within the Department of Health and Social Care this has been most evident in the major conditions strategy. This joined the growing collection of documents on the great Whitehall shelf in the sky that were written but never published, as it was developed by a