Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning

Step 2 – Mapping Service Change

Are you considering your healthcare workforce plans? The Six Steps Methodology to Integrated Workforce Planning can help.

The second part of the resource, developed by Skills for Health – Workforce Projects Team puts the spotlight on mapping service change, helping workforce planners identify the purpose and shape of any proposed service changes and how they will impact on the future.

This step goes hand in hand with the third and fourth stages of the methodology. At this point workforce planners will know exactly what changes and benefits they hope to achieve, having set a baseline from current costs and performance. This will be from factors like the current financial limitations of their organisation.

A major factor within Step 2 is understanding what benefits and limitations the new workforce plan will operate in. Also, having analysed various options for service change, the planner must then establish whether the preferred model delivers the described benefits more effectively than others, or is it simply more achievable against the expected constraints?

Skills for Health – Workforce Project Team has developed a range of tools and resources to work alongside Step 2, to help workforce planners design and understand exactly how their proposed service reconfiguration will work.

Link to six steps document via http://www.healthcareworkforce.nhs.uk/sixstepsonline