It provides for increasing the primary care workforce, which will increase Medicare beneficiaries' access to care, and strengthens the financial footing of the program.

In England, the social care workforce comprises over one and half million people.

Data on the social care workforce is collected and anaylised by Skills for Care, the national workforce organization for adult social care in England.

These exist to support both the social care workforce and people who use services, and include user-led organisations.

Skills for Care is the lead national body for strategy and policy in relation to workforce development and the social care workforce.

This proposal builds on a successful pilot program, which operated in seven states and kept thousands of individuals who had disqualifying records out of the long-term care workforce.

It rightly believed that raising the standard of the growing social care workforce and the self-respect of the individual worker could only be beneficial to the person using the services.

Of those grants, $253 million will go to improve and expand the primary care workforce, including $3.9 million for the State of Maryland.

Without a planned, coherent approach, we will not be able to meet future health needs, and we will fail our health and social care workforce.

Learn more about rebuilding the primary care workforce under the Affordable Care Act.