Strategic workforce planning and research
A growing concern within the NHS has been how to introduce greater academic rigour to workforce planning and research carried out around the healthcare workforce in the UK. The NHS Workforce Review Team (now part of the Centre for Workforce Intelligence), in partnership with the Institute of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester, has set up this SIG around this growing discipline. It provides a forum to facilitate knowledge mobilisation and utilisation across sector, institutional and geographical boundaries.
It is hoped that such a forum will be able to influence the research agenda around workforce planning, strategy and education and foster better research in the future. If you would like to be included on the SIG’s circulation list please contact HSRN@nhsconfed.org
The most recent SIG seminar:
Shifting the workload: the implications of moving skills from registered to non registered practitioners.
16 February 2011
View the seminar presentations from this seminar on the previous SIG events web page.
Background to the SIG
In April 2009, WRT led a seminar of leading academics in the UK to:
- Draw together a largely disparate group that share an interest in workforce planning (predominantly within health and social care, but not exclusively)
- Raise the profile of strategic workforce issues, increase scientific knowledge and identify solutions
- Share knowledge and best practice around strategic workforce planning and research
- Discuss how to progress a more joined-up approach among interested academics to current and future work and research
Response was overwhelmingly positive: the event was over-subscribed and WRT received many messages of support from those who were unable to attend. This SIG is the result of this seminar.
Work programme
The SIG aims to be a flexible membership group with an eclectic work programme, running seminars on nominated topics for interested parties.
Past seminars
View details and presentations from past seminar on the past SIG seminars page.
If you would like to put forward a topic for discussion or join the circulation list for the group, please contact HSRN@nhsconfed.org