North East North Cumbria

The priority for the NENC SPF is the implementation of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP), under its three key aims:

Train - with a focus on supply, training and education.
Retain - with a focus on staff health and wellbeing; equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI); culture; the NHS Staff Survey; violence reduction and sexual safety.
Reform - with a focus on new roles, new ways of working, education expansion and working as anchors/systems.

We had a successful North SPF conference, which focused on health inequalities and EDI, show casing best practice (LGTBQ+/fertility and deaf awareness).
We had partnership discussions on the NHS LTWP, with an overview from the regional assistant director of strategic workforce planning, supporting understanding on workforce growth and supply.
We had discussions on sexual safety, sharing responses and early work, preparing to support the NENC collective campaign #it’s never ok to...
We reviewed the format of our meetings, shaping agendas around the three themes of the plan and increasing attendance.

Staff side co-chair - Ian Fleming, Regional Organiser, Unison.
Staff side co-chair - Denise McLaughlin, Senior Regional Officer, RCN.
Management side co-chair - Rachael Metcalf, Human Resources Director at South Tees Hospitals.
Management side vice chair - Lesley Hodge, Associate Director of Operational Delivery and Resourcing, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.