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Appendix 1 Workforce Development Action Day, 15 April 2002
A Workforce Development Action Day was held on 15 April 2002 to help define the way forward in Scotland for developing a workforce which can deliver real benefits to match the investment which has been committed.
The event brought together some key stakeholders and focused in a practical way on how to take forward the key messages contained in
Planning Together (the report of the Scottish Integrated Workforce Planning Group) and SEHD's response. This Action Plan reflects the outcomes of that day's discussions.
The Action Day highlighted common ground covering a number of key themes:
the need to integrate workforce planning with service planning, joining up the needs of service demand with those of workforce supply;
endorsement of the concept of workforce development as a whole-systems approach to assessing the workforce needs of NHSScotland - embracing not only core planning of numbers, but also new ways of working, career development, recruitment and retention, impact of the working time regulations and the New Deal for junior doctors, links to service redesign, and education and training;
the need to build dedicated, protected and skilled human resource to carry out strategic workforce development at local, regional and national level;
a recognition that workforce development needs to be led at all levels - by individual Boards, at regional level, and nationally - and of the need to define how each level should relate to the others, while also allowing for local flexibility of approach;
a need to build robust and comprehensive HR information systems which provide the evidence-base required to develop effective workforce strategies.
The Action Day showed a common agenda among everyone involved in this endeavour - above all, a recognition that for too long NHSScotland has lacked a workforce development function that allows for the effective planning of future needs. This Action Plan provides a template for taking forward that work.
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