Report

Health and care workforce futures – Future demand for skills: Initial results

Horizon 2035 is a CfWI initiative to provide horizon scanning that will support the Department of Health’s long-term strategic vision for the health, social care and public health workforce in England.

The rigorous qualitative and quantitative research performed through this programme provides a range of insights and tools to consider future demands for workforce time across these three sectors.

Demand for workforce time is growing faster than population. Based on current understanding, we are projecting that demand for health and care workforce time could grow more than twice as fast
(+1.3 per cent as an annual average growth rate) as the rate of overall population growth (+0.6 per cent as an annual average growth rate) to 2035.

In this report, Horizon 2035 outlines some initial results and messages from their work to date. A final publication will follow  once all analysis of this extensive work has been completed and verified.