Protect patient confidentiality and data within health workforce planning.
Long-Range Health Workforce Planning
Build a working method for health workforce planning that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
Course Overview
Cost pressure and quality expectations on health workforce planning are rising at the same time. Accreditation bodies assess this part of health and pharmaceutical services on documented evidence of consistent practice. Participants apply the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda to their own clinical service throughout, so the output is directly usable. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to health workforce planning in an order their organisation can absorb. The programme suits teams tackling this strand of health and pharmaceutical services together as readily as individuals attending alone. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this part of health and pharmaceutical services and the judgement to adapt it. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in health workforce planning that were visible long before the incident. Most organisations already have a policy on the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda; far fewer can show it working. Participants leave with a plan for the health and pharmaceutical services capability sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish incident and near-miss reporting on health workforce planning that staff trust.
Structure records of health workforce planning so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Control cost per episode within health workforce planning without shifting risk to patients.
Audit health workforce planning in practice, not only in policy.
Present the case for investment in health workforce planning in terms that a finance function will accept.
Diagnose whether a problem in health workforce planning is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Who Should Attend
Clinical department heads responsible for health workforce planning.
Business partners who must understand health workforce planning well enough to challenge it.
Nursing managers and clinical supervisors delivering health workforce planning.
Hospital and health facility managers accountable for health workforce planning.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over health workforce planning.
Supply chain and biomedical staff supporting health workforce planning.
Course Modules
Health workforce planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for health workforce planning that is actually needed
- Match staffing levels on health workforce planning to measured demand across the week.
- Map the clinical workflow for health workforce planning as it is actually performed.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates health workforce planning is under control.
- Plan continuity of health workforce planning during surge and outbreak conditions.
Session 2The evidence assessors will ask for on health workforce planning
- Audit health workforce planning by observing practice, not by reading policy.
- Check that consent processes within health workforce planning are genuinely informed.
- Confirm the incident reporting route for health workforce planning is quick and non-punitive.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for health workforce planning.
Health workforce planning: confidentiality, consent and ethics
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Infection risk created by health workforce planning
- Anticipate the objections health workforce planning will raise and prepare the answers.
- Confirm licensing and regulatory requirements applying to health workforce planning are met.
- Close the loop: confirm changes to health workforce planning improved the indicator they targeted.
- Establish the boundary of health workforce planning and record what sits outside it.
Session 2The hard cases in health workforce planning and how to reason about them
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to health workforce planning will be introduced.
- Draft the minimum viable clinical protocol for health workforce planning.
- Identify where judgement in health workforce planning is legitimate and where it is not.
- Map the handovers in health workforce planning between functions and secure them.
Health workforce planning: incident reporting, investigation and learning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Consent, confidentiality and ethics in health workforce planning
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the last adverse event involving health workforce planning.
- Measure patient experience of health workforce planning and feed it back to the team.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in health workforce planning.
- Reduce unwarranted variation in health workforce planning between shifts and sites.
Session 2Closing out health workforce planning and capturing what was learned
- Assemble the accreditation evidence pack for health workforce planning.
- Agree the smallest change to health workforce planning that would be visibly useful.
- Verify six months later that changes to health workforce planning have held.
- Rehearse the briefing on health workforce planning that would follow an incident.
Health workforce planning: medication and treatment safety
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping supply and cold chain reliable for health workforce planning
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to health workforce planning.
- Confirm that those complying with health workforce planning understand why it exists.
- Verify cold chain and storage conditions for materials used in health workforce planning.
- Record what was learned when health workforce planning did not go as planned.
Session 2Investigating an adverse event involving health workforce planning
- Define escalation criteria for deterioration detected through health workforce planning.
- Estimate the resource health workforce planning requires to run as designed.
- Cost health workforce planning per episode and identify avoidable waste.
- Build medication safety checks into health workforce planning at the point of highest risk.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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