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<p>It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care
employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care.
This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p>The
NHS employs more staff now than at any other time in its 70-year history, with an
increase of 78,000 full time equivalent staff since May 2010<sup>1</sup>.</p><p>The
interim People Plan puts the workforce at the heart of the NHS and will ensure we
have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. The Plan sets out how the NHS
will increase the number of nurses, doctors and other staff working in the health
service. The NHS will publish a final People Plan soon after the conclusion of the
Spending Review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>NHS
Digital Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England: latest
data as at March 2019</p>
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