[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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