[EQ] A Quantitative Tool for Workforce Planning in Healthcare: Example Simulations

de: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
para: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
fecha: 22 de junio de 2009 11:06
asunto: [EQ] A Quantitative Tool for Workforce Planning in Healthcare: Example Simulations

A Quantitative Tool for Workforce Planning in Healthcare:
Example Simulations



Jasmina Behan, Nora Condon, Ivica Milic´evic´, Caroline Shally
Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU) - Planning & Research Department, FÁS
Dublin Ireland – June 2009

Available online as PDF [136p.] at: http://www.skillsireland.ie/media/egfsn090617_healthcare_report.pdf

“….The research, conducted by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit at FÁS, developed a quantitative tool that facilitates the assessment of how different policy scenarios and changes in the size and composition of the population – the main determinant of demand for health services – will affect the balance between the supply and demand of a range of healthcare occupations.

The research has taken an economy-wide approach and also includes the private healthcare sector. It shows that there are shortfalls facing some occupations, while others are in oversupply. The analysis is based on domestic supply only so as to test the adequacy of the Irish supply system to the replacement needs of the occupations reviewed….”

Table of Contents

Foreword
Executive Summary
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Methodology
Section 3 Demand and supply by occupation
3.1 Consultants
3.2 General practitioners (GPs)
3.3 Specialists in public health medicine (PHM)
3.4 Speech and language therapists (SLTs)
3.5 Physiotherapists
3.6 Nurses and midwives
3.7 Health care assistants (HCAs)
3.8 Home helps
3.9 Social care workers
3.10 Clinical psychologists
3.11 Medical physicists
3.12 Radiation therapists
Section 4 Summary of findings
Section 5 Recommendations
Appendix 1A Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) Members
Appendix 1B Skills and Labour Market Research Unit
Appendix 1C Study Liaison/Steering Group
Appendix 2 Private Hospital and Clinics Surveyed
Appendix 3 Survey Questionnaire − Private Hospitals and Clinics
Appendix 4 Independent Voluntary Agencies (Non-Statutory FEDVOL Members) Surveyed
Appendix 5 Survey Questionnaire − Independent Voluntary Agencies
Appendix 6 Catholic Voluntary Nursing Homes Surveyed
Appendix 7 Survey Questionnaire − Catholic Voluntary Nursing Homes Surveyed
Appendix 8 Medical Practitioners − Modelling Supply
Appendix 9 Principal bodies that provided data/comments during consultation process
Appendix 10 Nursing and midwifery education and Budget 2009 implications
References
Publications by the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs




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