Key Challenges
A key challenge for the Wakefield system are the gaps in accessing workforce data and analysing population health data to understand demand and capacity. Individual organisations have mapped their workforce and matched to local need but we have not carried out this exercise on a system-wide footprintor or across multi years. We need support from organisations working together and sharing data to benchmark and to understand workforce gaps and pressure points in specific areas where there is a system impact. We need to recognise changes to the Wakefield demographic with increases in the older citizen cohort coupled with a parallel increase in the numbers of people with complex long-term conditions.
We also need to agree a system-wide approach to workforce planning methodologies. Which methodologies will we use, where will the planning function be based and how will it influence local workforce strategies.
We recognise the choices some organisations who sit across a number of geographical boundaries will need to consider and engage in once at organisation, place and ICS. We also note the action to develop a workforce modelling tool for Wakefield that we need to ensure we do not create duplication with what is already in place and also required for NHSE/I and HEE submissions.
