Sustaining the health and adult social care workforce
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?

This briefing describes current surveillance efforts and examines new technological developments and their likely impacts on UK and international public health.
Surveillance of infectious disease (329 KB , PDF)
Microbes such as bacteria and viruses cause a wide range of infectious diseases. They can be highly adaptable and evolve rapidly to changing environments. This can change their ability to spread and their susceptibility to antimicrobial drugs. Surveillance is key for detecting and responding to novel and re-emerging microbes. This briefing describes current surveillance efforts and examines new technological developments and their likely impacts on UK and international public health.
Surveillance of infectious disease (329 KB , PDF)
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?
Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) are important for the UK’s economic future. How can the routes through education and into STEM be improved?
This POSTnote considers the potential impacts of birthrate decline, including on the workforce and the provision of public services.