Wakefield District Health & Care Partnership works to improve the health and wellbeing of local people, by reducing health inequalities, providing continuity of care and improving our services. Our partnership includes NHS organisations, Wakefield Council, Healthwatch Wakefield, housing, voluntary and community sector organisations. We are proud to be part of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.
Our vision is to ensure that local people receive person-centered care, which is delivered at the right time, in the right place and by the right person. All Connecting Care+ partners are committed to supporting and developing talented individuals in skilled health, wellbeing and care teams, working to an agreed set of 9 guidelines for workforce transformation.
Our 9 guidelines for workforce transformation
- Redesigning roles & services, and creating new roles/services that focus on better outcomes for people with care and support needs
- A workforce working to a Whole System approach – individuals and teams that cooperate and consider the impact of any change on whole system, minimise unnecessary competition between programmes, organisations and teams for people resources
- Expanding the role of Wakefield citizens and carers to participate in and assist them to take responsibility for their care
- Expanding the role of Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE)
- Increasing the effectiveness and accessibility of education and training and on-going supervision throughout the system by joint working and sharing expertise and resources
- Actively fostering systems leadership development bespoke to Wakefield
- Acknowledge and overcome resistance to change and transition through a shared culture of partnership where service boundaries are blurred and roles, professional identities and functions interrelate for the good of seamless patient care
- Shared values and learning across disciplines (which are linked to the creation of transportable accreditation options, the principles of person centred planning and care at or closer to home)
- Shared project management methodology and ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation
Wakefield’s workforce
Wakefield has an estimated population of 345,038 people (2018), and is expected to encounter a large population structure change within the next five years, with the older persons grouping (65 and over) which is approximately 66,400 in 2019, growing by 11% to reach 73,900 in 2025 and by 35% to exceed 89,600 2035. As a corollary to this, the working age population (18-64), which was approximately 204,200 in 2019, is predicted to decrease by approximately 1% by 2035 meaning a decrease of 1,500 people in the theoretical workforce. Implications of an ageing population are wide in terms of people living longer into old age with a higher burden of chronic disease, an increased demand for health and wellbeing services, a reduction in working age people, a reduced contribution to the economy and lower incomes, and increased human resources for care services (paid and unpaid carer’s).
Data Source: POPPI and PANSI – Wakefield Population by age (2019).
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