Workforce planning for seven day service

Workforce Planning for

7 day service

Sarah Race

www.hee.nhs.uk www.wm.hee.nhs.uk

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“Aims to ensure organisations strategically plan to have sufficient staff (clinical and non-

clinical), with the appropriate skills, to meet the current and future needs of their

population.”

(www.healthcareworkforce.nhs.uk)

What is Workforce Planning?


• To ensure the organisation can deliver its business objectives, contributing

to delivering safe, caring, effective and efficient services

• Prevent staffing crises and shortfalls in service

• Make best use of current staff

• Develop new and flexible roles

• To support education commissioning and avoid under/over supply

• Able to respond flexibly to future changes

Why do you need to do it?


Collaboration Integration

System wide

How can Workforce Planning for 7 day service be done?

Define the Plan / Visioning the future

Assessing Demand

Assessing Supply Developing an action

plan / Implementation


• What is the current demand for the service?

• Do we understand who will be accessing the service? Have their needs been taken into account?

• Have we scoped out the wider implications of 7 day service e.g. impact on Pharmacies, transport etc.

• What are the workforce implications? What is the gap? Are there any hotspots we need to take into consideration?

• What is the baseline position and how can we identify early learning from best practice?

• What skills and competences are required to deliver 7 day service?

Assessing Demand (what’s needed)


• What workforce do we currently have in place to deliver 7 day service?

• What skills and competences do the workforce have? What is the gap between what has been

identified and what is needed?

• Have the new ways of working or new roles in developing 7 day service be explored?

• Data quality (ESR)

• Are turnover, sickness, vacancy, bank and agency spend being monitored and understood?

Assessing Supply (what’s available)


• How well do the current skills, roles and numbers match the expected service need?

• Has scenario modelling been undertaken to understand the best and worse case scenario?

• What are the timescales for delivery? Has this been mapped to the NHS England guidance?

• Have any solutions to the issues outlined within 7 day service e.g. Education Commissioning,

New roles / new ways of working. Physician Associates, Advanced Practice been considered?

Example: Emergency Medicine

Action Plan / Implementation

To address regional secondary and primary care

workforce shortages, by introducing a skilled non-

doctor workforce, trained to the medical model,

capable of seeing and treating patients in a

generalist or specialist setting.

Physician Associate: Re-launch of regional training and informing / influencing / driving

the national picture.


• Education Commissioning – robust forecasting

• Engaging with Education Providers over impact of 7 day service – shaping courses

• Working together on skills mix changes

• Sharing and learning best practice Nationally and other LETB’s

• Understanding and interpreting national policy such as the NHS Services Seven Days a Week Forum documentation

• Support system wide approach – working together

• Workforce Modelling tool

What support can Health Education West Midlands (HEWM) offer to workforce planning for 7 day service?


It is a huge task, its not short term fixes

HOWEVER,

It is achievable if the system works together and shares best practice

In summary ………..

Healthcare

Workforce planning for seven day service