Labour Market Information and Intelligence Guide for NHS Planners

The latest free to access resource from Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team provides workforce planners, commissioners and service planners in the healthcare sector with an invaluable guide to finding and using information that can support long term recruitment and service development decision making.

A lack of good labour market information is often cited as a barrier to good workforce planning. However, all the information is out there in a variety of sources and locations. ‘Guide to Labour Market Intelligence for NHS Workforce Planners’ brings together these sources in an easy to access PDF document. There are direct links to a host of materials and examples of how to use them.

With the guide you can:

• Better plan for future demographic changes to the workforce by using available data to assess
the age, gender and skill set of the local labour market and factors such as the impact of retirement ages
• Access direct links to some of the biggest and most useful sources of labour market information in the UK such as NOMIS and local government data
• Prepare better workforce plans by looking at a range of variables you may not have previously considered - such as the impact of migrant workers and travel to work patterns of your existing and potential workforce
• Be assured that the information you are basing your plans on is the most up to date available.

A Guide to Labour Market Information for NHS Workforce Planners is aimed at audiences of all levels of experience. It’s a simple read that aims to stimulate your thinking and ensure your planning is based on the best information available.

You can download a copy of the guide by clicking here.

Click here for more background information on the LMI Guide...