The ministry currently has two contracts in place for data collection, analysis and modeling in order to make recommendations to the health field and back to the ministry on likely future needs.
- One contract is related to doctors, mental health professions, dentists and specialized nurses (and related professions). The contractor is the ACMMP.
- The other contract is related to nurses, assistant-nurses, care-takers, social workers and home helpers and is given to a research program.
In the contract with ACMMP some statutory objectives are set.
Those statutory objectives are translated into quantitative outputs regarding numbers of professionals even if, to fix them, discussions on future professional mix, future skills needed and future working conditions are made.
Indeed, ACMMP collects data and information on developments from a wide range of organisations and sources, with focus on both supply (registers, training programs) and demand (demographics, vacancies, technological developments). Experts for each medical specialism are involved to discuss the changes in working processes that will affect the capacity of the workforce in the future.
For instance, questions typically asked will include how much time can be saved by the newest generation endoscopes compared to at present, and whether a specialized nurse can be trained to carry out these tasks. Some specialists are also interviewed about working hours, their personal objectives as to retiring or diminishing working hours, and their potential desire and/or reasons for wanting to go abroad.
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