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Measuring and Predicting Turnover and Wastage 'How to' guide
What is this resource?
This guide is designed to improve understanding of the importance of monitoring wastage, turnover and stability and how this will help to measure, monitor and illustrate turnover and wastage in the workforce.
What is in this resource?
The guide includes a section on the different types of 'leavers' from the NHS ('leavers' being staff who leave the NHS).
The guide also outlines some questions you should take into consideration before calculating the turnover and wastage for your organisation, for example:
Which type of leaver am I analysing?
What period of time am I analysing?
What am I comparing the information with?
When it comes to making sense of the data, the guide offers useful information about how to make calculations, for example:
Survival rate
Stability rate.
Who is this useful for?
The guide is particularly useful to workforce planners. It is generally workforce planners who are asked to produce the turnover and wastage information for their organisation.
How will this help me and my organisation?
This guide may help workforce planners to support service managers in understanding the workforce dynamics.
How do I use this resource?
Working through the calculations given in this guide will give you valuable data about your workforce.
Background information to this guide is available in another guide, understanding turnover and wastage, which is also available on this portal.
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 on this portal in July 2006.
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Measuring and Predicting Turnover and Wastage 'How to' guide
