Key Challenges

Changes to how care is provided is a challenge for the Wakefield system. We need to shift the balance of the workforce towards primary and community care whilst engaging the public to invest in their own and their families wellbeing. This includes health promotion and behaviours/competencies which focus on prevention. There is a resistance to change in professional boundaries, which will allow people to work more flexibly and build resilience to care through voluntary and community solutions. There is also a need to change the mindset in the health and social care workforce from ‘doing to, to doing with citizens’

There are many new roles evolving within health and social care which require an open and transparent approach to public engagement. This will help us to identify and manage any public resistance to workforce transformation.

There is also a challenge in relation to differences in the governance structures, terms and conditions and rates of pay between partner organisations.  These have an impact on our ability to develop staff, staff passporting, staff development and quality placements for trainees