Policy paper

Challenges facing health, social care and public health

A report identifying the challenges facing health, social care and public health to draw out their workforce implications.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and Health Education England
• Published: 1 October 2013

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Big picture challenges: the context

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As part of a horizon scanning programme, the Centre for Workforce Intelligence identified the big picture challenges facing health, social care and public health to draw out their workforce implications.

A big picture challenge is a fundamental challenge facing policymakers across the sector and requires focused action across politics, industry and research.

Big picture challenges identified 4 overarching categories facing the health, social care and public health systems:

• demographic and social
• health and social care system design
• quality and productivity
• finance and economic

Published 1 October 2013