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Closer engagement and subsequent alignment to the clinical networks and action groups is occurring with the recognition that workforce and training are enablers to support healthcare to our populations, thereby strengthening the workforce capacity and capability in line with service delivery developed within the clinical networks and action groups. This is particularly reflected in the technical expertise from GMs-HR and the RDoW working alongside workforce intelligence and planning analyst support hosted within HealthShare Ltd. This analyst support provides intelligence and data to the GMs-HR and a database repository that will enable GMs-HR/RDoW working with regional networks and action groups to consider new models of care and forecasting future workforce supply and demand.
The demography of our health workforce is continuing to age and accordingly key strategies and activities are being progressed within this plan to assert how our provider organisations will accommodate the unique circumstances that a more mature workforce brings to practice. Factors influencing demand include: changes in patterns of disease, development of technologies, introducing new professional or regulatory authority scopes of practice, financial constraints and workforce substitution. In conjunction with HWNZ, the national GMs-HR group and national DHB-SS, Midland DHBs have initiated the development of data cubes (currently for midwifery and cardiac) that will provide a single point of reference for vulnerable workforces within the Midland region DHBs, populated by local DHB sources and national sources.
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