David Oliver: The risk assessment for NHS England’s long term workforce plan should worry doctors

NHS England is accused of complacency over workforce plan risk assessment

“…However, the BMJ columnist David Oliver,2 a consultant in geriatrics and general internal medicine, has argued that the assessment was “scant” and showed that NHS England had not properly considered the impact of the plan on doctors and other clinical staff, especially regarding the expansion of physician associate and anaesthesia associate roles. NHS England has said that “risk was managed at the level of the whole workforce plan,” meaning that “no specific risk assessments were undertaken at programme level.”…”