Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) what steps her Department is taking to improve retention across the NHS workforce; and (b) what assessment the Department has made of measures to reduce staff turnover, sickness absence and reliance on temporary staffing.

Management of staff at a local level is a matter for individual National Health Service employers. The Department will address wider issues around staff recruitment, retention, and welfare as part of our upcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan.