Four brand new resources will be launched on the healthcare workforce online portal in July.

NWP has developed the Workforce Evaluation Tool, the NHS Mental Health Database and a new Search Engine for the Benchmarking Databases.

In addition, NHS Yorkshire and Humber have commissioned a Maternity Database which they have kindly made available for the wider NHS via our portal.

All of which will be available to use over the course of the next month.
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Workforce Evaluation Tool
The tool will evaluate organisation performance in four key areas - service, workforce, customer and financial by allowing users to set measurable organisational goals which can then be mapped against actual organisational performance. The tool offers a visual representation of the users success in the four key areas and alerts the user to the best performance indicators and those which require attention.
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The Search Engine Benchmarking Database
The Search Engine Benchmarking Database is a more user friendly version of the existing benchmarking database which will act as a one stop shop to a range of to a range of acute sector, PCT and mental health NHS data sources. It also has added functionality around report writing and visual representations.
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Maternity Database
A Maternity database which can be used to inform workforce planning initiatives and provide organisations with the facility of benchmarking themselves in relation to the Maternity Matters policy to ensure they are compliant with new regulations.
Visit the healthcare workforce portal throughout July to try the tools and find out more.

Representatives from Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust have described NWP's Six Steps Guide to Workforce Planning as 'culture changing' in the Health Service Journal (HSJ).

A two page article on the trust featured in the 12th June edition and described how they used the guide across the whole organisation, plus how staff believe it's 'paying off'. The tPCT started to implement the programme in February 2007, with people drawn from teams across the trust.

Helen Allen, director of workforce development at the tPCT, told the HSJ, "By implementing this programme we have changed the culture of the organisation in terms of how people think about workforce planning, from it being seen as something human resources does to something that all managers and budget holders do."

The six steps guide is available from the healthcare workforce web portal
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Healthcare sector colleagues from across the UK will converge on London's Docklands this week for the third annual Working Time Directive (WTD) exhibition.

The ExCeL exhibition and conference centre will play host to the event on 2nd July, which marks the final countdown to the introduction of the 48 hour working week for junior doctors.

All resources from the WTD exhibition will be available on the healthcare workforce portal shortly after the event, so even if you aren't coming to London you can still catch up with all the latest WTD information.

If you're attending, we look forward to seeing you there.

USB sticks packed with workforce planning resources are set to wing their way to 100 healthcare staff.

Last month we offered the first 50 people who got their friend to sign up to receive this bulletin a memory stick, with the added bonus that their friend would also get one as a welcome from NWP. The memory sticks will be distributed shortly.

We'd like to thank everyone who 'told a friend' about us, we hope you continue to enjoy our regular bulletins and visit the healthcare workforce online portal to browse and use of our range of resources and tools.

Time is running out for you to get your hands on a number of NHS National Workforce Project's (NWP) essential resources.

We are down to the last few physical copies of our Administration Workforce briefing, Demographics and the Healthcare Workforce Boardroom Briefing, Estates and Facilities Management briefing paper and Maximising Staff Engagement briefing paper.

As an environmentally aware organisation, we won't be renewing physical stocks of these documents, however they will still be available together with all our other resources on the healthcare workforce portal.

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If you would like to request copies of any of our other workforce planning documents, briefings or tools, contact communications@nwpnhs.org.uk.

The Calderdale Framework will join the host of online tools on NWP's healthcare workforce portal in July.

The new resource provides a clear and systematic method of reviewing skill mix and roles within a service, carried out in conjunction with the Skills for Health (SfH) competences.

The document has been produced within the Clinical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department at Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust. The framework provides the basis for the training of staff and gives them a clear record of competence, ensuring they are fit for purpose in their role.

Keep an eye on our online portal for further updates.
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The latest issue of Calling Time will be launched at the WTD conference. The 10th edition of the magazine, which is released six times a year, features a host of brand new articles focusing on a range of WTD related subjects including:

• EWTD manager Tim Lund discusses possible amendments to WTD
• Hospital at Night (HaN) goes international
• Targeted support for trusts
• Plus lots more.