Workforce planning - matching of demand to staff with the right skills, behaviours and attitudes in the right place at the right time - is the biggest challenge facing the UK Health & Care sector. Faced with increasing demand, reducing supply, cost pressures and new organisational, care and digital models, the sector faces a once in a lifetime need, and opportunity to change.
The Book of Health & Care Workforce Planning (2nd Edition) takes you through approaches, techniques and experience to develop your skills in all aspects of workforce planning. Because to meet this challenge and opportunity, we will need an army of staff that can undertake all these and system redesignDeveloping workforce strategies and plansWorkforce modellingBuilding system-level workforce hubs and collaborativesFront-line skills like rostering & schedulingWith more than 25 years experience in workforce planning, 15 of which have been in the health and care sector, Colin Lewry along with Amina Jina and Fiona Lord, take us through approaches to all these aspects of workforce planning, providing real-world experience and examples of what works and what doesn't work in this pragmatic 200 page guide.
The Bumper Book of Health & Care Workforce Planning is for any manager in health or care who wants to develop their workforce planning skills - for Primary Care Network and Practice Managers, for Community and Social Care Team Leaders, Operations Directors, Divisional Managers, Directorate Managers, HR teams, Primary Care Training Hubs and Integrated Care System (ICS) and Integrated Care Partnerships (ICP) Workforce Leads. It is for anyone who runs a team or needs to plan health and care workforce at system, organisation or team level.