A new organisation is being set up to help NHS and social care bodies plan their workforce around delivering more productive and people centred care, Health Minister Ann Keen announced recently.
The Centre for Workforce Intelligence will help the NHS and social care system plan their workforces around shifting resources to the frontline, removing bureaucracy and moving care from hospitals into homes and the community.
The commitment to form the Centre was made after a review into the future of the NHS workforce in 2008, ‘A High Quality Workforce', highlighted the need for an organisation to provide leadership on the quality of workforce planning across the health and social care system.
The Centre will:
- Promote best practice in workforce planning in NHS and social care services that make care more efficient and people centred.
- Provide research and expert advice to NHS and social care planners, clinicians and commissioners.
- Ensure that everyone involved in workforce planning contributes to the collection of, and uses, high quality data, analysis and modelling.
- Look out for labour market issues that are likely to have an impact on care pathways.
Peter Sharp, Director of Learning & Wellbeing at consulting and business service group, Mouchel, has been appointed as the Chief Executive for the Centre and it will be Chaired by Dame Carol Black.
Find out more on the DH website.
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