Specifically, high staff vacancy rates across a range of services and professions and issues with staff retention and recruitment. These issues are causing greater workload pressures on existing members of staff and services to become increasingly fragile.

Overall, we found that the Health Board is clearly focusing its efforts on its significant workforce challenges and is taking pragmatic steps to help reduce risks. However, it needs to urgently develop a clear and consolidated workforce implementation plan and measure the impact it is having to help address the significant workforce challenges it faces.