NHS plan: the numbers are impressive, but where are the new ideas?

Health bosses will welcome tens of thousands of new recruits, but the plan has little to say on how to change the culture to keep them

It was on 8 November 2017 that Jeremy Hunt, the then health secretary, first promised that the government would bring forward a long-term, comprehensive plan to end the NHS's lack of staff.

It would, he said, be the first proper NHS workforce plan that we have had since 2000". And the plan would emerge quickly, he added, reflecting the urgency of tackling what has become the most debilitating of the NHS's many problems - shortages of staff, everywhere.