Events
NHSE are running their next Workforce Network event, which will focus on Developing Workforce Safeguards and Safer Staffing. This is a critical element of workforce planning to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care. Clinical workforce colleagues from both national and regional teams will lead the session, providing an in-depth overview of the guidance, its importance, and sharing best practice examples.
Registration Deadline: Friday, 17th January at 5:00pm
Sign up here: North Workforce Network – Developing workforce safeguards & safer staffing | NHS England Events
The network aims to provide a space to share good practice, update you on things that are happening nationally and regionally and give you the opportunity to make connections across our regions.
This event will focus on Workforce Productivity and will be an opportunity to learn more about benchmarking and diagnostic tools to identify improvement opportunities, alongside resources to support implementation of high impact interventions. This will include a focus on the Model Health System and the Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool to support planning and development of workforce productivity improvement plans and priority actions.
Sign up here: https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/north-workforce-network-productivity-and-efficiency
In this webinar, members of the NHS England Productivity and Efficiency team will discuss the work they have done to understand changes in NHS productivity since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The webinar will give an overview of the range of productivity tools, and other benchmarking resources, the team are working on. It will then go into more detail of the methodology and data sources used to produce trust-level productivity gap analysis. For acute services, this analysis was shared with trusts in July via NHS England regional teams. There will be time for questions from the audience.
The webinar is intended to support trusts to use the analysis and identify potential opportunities to improve productivity locally.
We will also arrange future sessions that will focus on other resources. To find out more about our work on productivity and efficiency, and access information about the resources, refer to our Productivity and Efficiency FutureNHS workspace.
Please contact england.financeengagement@nhs.net if you have any questions about the event.
To register please go to Productivity gap – waterfall analysis | NHS England Events
CLEAR CAMHS Hull and East Riding- reducing waiting times and streamlining care
Friday 26 April, 12:30 – 13:30
The next webinar in our CLEAR impact series 2024 will explore how CLEAR supported Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust to design a new model of care to improve their Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Hull and East Riding – part of our CLEAR North East and Yorkshire capability programme.
Sponsored by NHS England – North East and Yorkshire, the project looked at ways to reduce waiting lists, make processes more efficient and improve patient care. This included looking at the criteria for care, opportunities to enhance the CAMHS urgent treatment pathway and improving system collaboration to support children and young people after discharge.
Recommendations for change included more streamlined, personalised and family oriented first contact process, enhancing access for children and young people who live in remote and rural areas including the introduction outreach centres, consolidation of the Hull and East Riding teams, developing more efficient administrative practices through AI-powered technology, and providing more clarity around the autistic and neurodiverse pathway.
Colleagues leading the project, including staff from the trust and a manager from NHS England – North East and Yorkshire, will discuss their experiences of driving the project, challenges they faced and processes around designing the new model of care. They will also share their reflections on the impact the project has had on their transformation and innovation skills development.
Speakers
• Nikki Titchener, Service Manager for East Riding CAMHS, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
• Philip Cross, Senior Project Manager, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
• Juliet McGilligan Regional Programmes, Workforce, Training and Education Directorate, NHS England – North East and Yorkshire Region
• Claire Brewster, CLEAR Delivery Lead, 33n
We hope you can join us. Register here: Join our CLEAR CAMHS webinar
About the Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool
The Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool aims to support systems and trusts to develop an action plan to improve workforce productivity, as set out in 2024/25 NHS planning guidance.
This tool enables systems and acute/specialist providers to:
- Benchmark variation in substantive workforce vs cost weighted activity change from 2019/20 to 2022/23 and 2023/24 M1-M5 YTD
- Self-assess where the additional workforce has been deployed (by professional group level, including for national schemes and locally driven change)
- Identify the impact of workforce factors e.g. sickness absence, retention, e-rostering/job-planning, as well as additional operational factors such as non-elective length of stay
- Summarise the key changes and pull-out potential drivers of workforce productivity gaps
- Identify key actions to take to improve workforce productivity.
It can be accessed via: Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool – Productivity and Efficiency Improvement Hub – FutureNHS Collaboration Platform
About this session
The aim of this session is to provide an introduction and demonstration of the Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool. The session is aimed at system and provider-level Workforce, Finance and Operational leads. The presenters will be:
- Pritti Mehta – Deputy Director of Improvement – Workforce, Training and Education, NHS England
- Alfred Fielder – Senior Manager – Strategy, NHS England
To register please go to Workforce Productivity Diagnostic Tool Webinar
The session is focusing on preparing for the operational planning round and will include:
- Overview of this operational planning round and what we can expect
- NHS Impact – using improvement methodology to support workforce planning
- Workforce Modelling and Planning tools – Run through of the different methodologies and how to find out more.
- Agency Reduction – the tools to support delivering agency reduction as part of the planning submissions
- Workforce Tools – what data and tools are available to support workforce planning
Register via NHS Events here
Upcoming North Workforce Optimisation Event:
For those keen on workforce transformation, there’s an upcoming North Workforce Optimisation Event you might find interesting. This event will feature presentations from both national and regional teams and showcase related case studies. It’s scheduled to take place on the 11 of October 2023, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, via MS Teams. To register your interest please click here.
On the 26th September 2023 at the Royal Armouries in Leeds we held an event reviewing all of the HEE funded projects happening in and around workforce in the Northeast and Yorkshire.
The event was chaired by Wyn Jones Interim Head of Regional Workforce Programmes (MHLDA), NHS England and covered topics around
- North East & Yorkshire Workforce Challenge Hub Programme,
- CLEAR North East & Yorkshire Project – Supporting the Recovery and Transformation of Key Services,
- Embedded Support Workers in Community Mental Health Teams and Kids Time Workshops
Around a hundred people from across our regions attended and shared updates on their projects by informal ‘poster talks’ allowing delegates to walk around the posters and talk to the project teams.
