Workforce Planning at Strategic and Practice Levels

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Workforce Planning at Strategic and Practice
Levels

• Marion Bennie
• Chief Pharmaceutical Adviser,
• National Services Scotland
• Chair, Scottish Specialists in Pharmaceutical
  Public Health

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Outline

• Policy
• Competence and Capacity
• The Scottish Experience

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Public Health Policy

• Review of the Public Health Function in Scotland
  (SEHD, 1999)
• Improving Health in Scotland the Challenge
  (SEHD, 2003)

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Pharmacy Policy

• The Right Medicine a strategy for pharmaceutical
  care in Scotland (SEHD, 2002)
• Pharmacy for Health the way forward for
  pharmaceutical public health in Scotland (PHIS,
  2002)

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Strategy

• Scottish Specialists in Pharmaceutical Public
  Health
• Skills Development
• Networks
• Levers
• Evolving new Community Pharmacy Contract and
  Planning process
• UK Voluntary Register for Defined Specialists

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Competence

• Education and Training
• National training days awareness raising
• Needs assessment practitioners and specialists
• Distance learning materials to support new
  contract service
• Tools
• Toolkits to assess pharmaceutical needs out of
  hours and palliative care services
• Information systems
• Local service development packages

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Educational Needs Assessment

• Assess the education and training needs of
  pharmacy practitioner to deliver public health
  service of the new contract
• Develop a formal programme of training to produce
  sustainable workforce of specialists in
  pharmaceutical public health

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Competence

• Education and Training
• National training days awareness raising
• Needs assessment practitioners and specialists
• Distance learning materials to support new
  contract service
• Tools
• Toolkits to assess pharmaceutical needs out of
  hours and palliative care services
• Information systems
• Local service development packages

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Competence hands on experience

• Smoking cessation
• Emergency contraception
• Oral cancer screening
• Mens health MOTs
• Flu vaccination
• etc

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Capacity

• Health Board and academic appointments
• Networking
• Designated training programme for Specialists
• Website www.show.scot.nhs.uk/ssipph

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Conclusion
Workforce Planning
NHS

Practitioners
Policy
Strategic

Education and training
Healthcare Services

Tools
Practice

Experience
Better health healthcare for all