Thursday 2 June 2016

Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need

The future of the NHS is in the hands of its workforce Healthcare professionals can be enabled to deliver care by developing new roles, developing their practice and being taken care of by their employer

The diverse NHS workforce is working tirelessly to meet an ever-increasing demand on the health service. People need help to keep pace with the more complex and longer term needs of those they serve. I argue we need to look differently at staffing in two ways. Firstly a focus on learning the lessons of how new ways of working can help our patients, and secondly addressing the real variation in the experience of our people.

Our report with the Nuffield Trust looking at how we can reshape a future workforce recommended that those registered care professionals (nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists) already working for us could be better enabled to deliver care by developing new clinical roles and developing the scope and extent of their practice. It also highlighted that the training of non-clinical staff to support patient care will help meet the changing needs of people today, but it will also mark a radical shift in the way that our workforce today is structured. Continue reading... The Guardian

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