No NHS CEO can answer how many consultants is the right number. The question itself reveals the failure of traditional workforce planning.
Strasys
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1 min read
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28 May 2026
Featured image for the Strasys Fish & Chip Paper column on NHS consultant workforce planning. The article argues that the inability of any Trust CEO to state the optimal number of consultants exposes fundamental flaws in how the NHS approaches workforce design — treating headcount as a proxy for capability rather than modelling population need against clinical capacity.
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