This briefing provides an overview of the following areas of NHS workforce policy:

1. Building an NHS fit for the future

• The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP)
• Supporting management and leadership

2. Pay

• Rebuilding industrial relationships
• Reform of pay review bodies
• Very senior manager (VSM) pay framework
• Chair and non-executive director (NED) remuneration

3. Culture and staff wellbeing

• NHS England’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) improvement plan
• Staff wellbeing and mental health
• Sexual safety