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SPF Bulletin - October 2025

Find out about the latest work, updates and events from the national and regional SPFs.

31 October 2025

The SPF Bulletin features monthly updates and forward plans from the national SPF groups, subgroups and regional SPFs, alongside the latest workforce resources, guidance and events across health and care. 

Highlights in the October bulletin include: 

  • A summary of our October Strategic Group meeting and key comms from our September Wider Group meeting.
  • Updates from our extraordinary SPF Wider Group meeting with Sir Jim Mackey and our October Workforce Issues Group meeting.
  • Call for evidence for the NHS 10 Year Workforce Plan.
  • Frontline health and social care workers flu vaccination campaign resources.
  • Comms resources to encourage participation in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey.
  • Employment rights bill consultations.
  • Government press release outlining actions to tackle antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS.
  • Letter from NHSE to trusts and ICBs requesting they adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
  • NHS Employers’ anti-racism hub and our co-chairs’ statement condemning racial abuse and harassment.
  • NHSE’s Medium Term Planning Framework for the NHS.
  • Details on the 2025 HPMA conference and awards ceremony on 20 November and the Midlands and East SPF conference on 3 December.
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