This session will discuss how the health and care system can achieve a clear, long-term national strategy to improve staff experience and safeguard workforce supply.

We will explore issues such as recruitment, retention and wellbeing including:

• workforce strategy (merger benefits)
• international recruitment (nursing: update to 50k nursing ambition, HCSW, midwifery)
• retention: what good looks like from perspective of local delivery
• health and wellbeing: looking after our people, menopause pledge, long-COVID
• compassionate and inclusive leadership
• evidence-based approaches which support our people to have a good experience of work.