What is this resource?
This is a guide to care pathways. A care pathway describes all the activities that need to happen as a patient with a particular condition moves through the care system.
What is in this resource?
The guide describes, in detail, what a care pathway is and why knowing about them is important to workforce planners and the planning process generally.
It explains some of the uses of care pathways, as well as some limitations and it ends with a section describing the key steps to mapping a care pathway.
Who is this useful for?
This guide is aimed at providing information and support to workforce planners and HR leads at SHAs, trusts and PCTs.
How will this help me and my organisation?
Care pathways are important to workforce planners because, when they are being developed and implemented, they can tell us more about demand for staff in terms of numbers and types of staff, the skills needed, and how best to deploy staff at each stage of the patient journey. The introduction of a care pathway will usually alter the demand for workforce.
Equally, developers of care pathways may find the early involvement of HR advisers and planners useful to ensure the supply of the right kind of staff.
How do I use this resource?
Read this guide in conjunction with the Workforce Planning Step Guide or refer to the briefing while working through the Six Steps e-learning programme.
Latest news on this resource
This guide provides supporting information to Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team's Six Steps E-learning Programme which was launched in July 2006.
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