Health Workforce Transformation

Strategic planning of both provider supply of the workforce and patient demand for healthcare (both utilization of services and population health needs) is required to build an effective health workforce planning strategy. We conduct a thorough examination of your operational ecosystem, evaluating internal processes, governance, positioning, and existing workstreams to identify areas for short term, high-value improvements and innovation. Our Strategic Insights are rooted in a comprehensive analysis of market trends, industry dynamics, and your organizational strengths and weaknesses. We leverage our expertise to unearth hidden opportunities and mitigate potential risks, ensuring that every decision aligns with your overarching business objectives. Whether you are navigating a period of rapid expansion, exploring new enhancements, or optimizing your current operations or services, our advisors are here to guide you through the complexities of your health workforce transformation.

As an industry, healthcare has been slower than most to adopt standard health systems planning and processes. With clinical planning leaning more to improving the supply of nurses and doctors there has been a lack of focus other healthcare team members and integrated planning approaches for health workforce planning.  

Now is the time for healthcare systems to shift toward integrated, proactive workforce planning that is critical to health systems planning and successful clinical service delivery.  

Health systems must regularly anticipate provider requirements related to meeting the needs of patient populations.  Critical to this is supporting governance and planning infrastructures that enable these processes to effectively be implemented.  

By addressing these components and defining successful outcomes, integrated health systems strategic planning can lead to more effective and efficient healthcare delivery, meeting the needs of the population and improving overall health outcomes.

Key Features of Our Workforce Planning Transformation

We reduce time to value by understanding what is required to design, develop, implement, or augment and improve existing health workforce planning capacity. From governance, structure, and process development right down to analytical modeling, forecasting, and health workforce reporting, we bring established best-practicing solutions to you.

The process of planning for the current health workforce and health system involves several key components:

1. Understanding Provider Types and Workforce Trends: Analyzing the different types of healthcare providers and their trends in terms of numbers, specialties, and locations.
2. Assessing Service Delivery and Health Outcomes: Evaluating how healthcare services are currently delivered and the health outcomes achieved for the population.
3. Identifying People's Needs and Access: Understanding the healthcare needs of the population and assessing the accessibility of services based on socio-economic factors.
4. Analyzing Health Spending: Examining the current health spending, including both insured and uninsured services, and considering the private and public services, as well as wait times for care.
5. Developing a Go-Forward Strategy: Constructing a strategy that addresses service needs, provider requirements, spending constraints, and enablers for effective healthcare delivery.
6. Strategic Planning Components: Considering various factors such as service delivery, utilization, workforce supply, health information and data, technologies, costing, leadership, governance, and evaluation.
7. Defining Successful Outcomes: Identifying key outcomes, including effective, safe, and high-quality health services that address population needs in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
8. Optimizing the Health Workforce: Ensuring the health workforce is productive, responsive, properly distributed, and structured to achieve optimal health outcomes for the population.
9. Establishing a Robust Health Information System: Implementing a well-functioning health information system with data performance analytics to support planning and evaluation efforts.
   

Our Experience

Our agency has decades of health systems, operations, and workforce planning experience. We know how to identify what's needed to move from where you are to where you need to be faster, reducing costs and increasing time to value.

Technology Integration

We understanding how technology can enhance efficiency and integrates across clinical and operational environments - as well as how challenging implementing new technology in these settings is. Our program and project leaders and change management experts help bridge the gap quickly and effectively, securing stakeholder buy-in and support, preparing and enabling them for change, and supporting through delivery.

Training and Development Programs

Health workforce managed services includes the ability to start up new processes and systems capable of health workforce planning, and then maintaining those processes while collaboratively building your internal capacity. Our development programs build your team's skills for best-practice health workforce training and then ensure an effective transition by supporting both through the process and post-transition.