The workforce planning and assurance process at a local level:
- Each Trust was asked to provide their future workforce forecasts setting out their anticipated needs for staff numbers and skills to their LETB;
- Each LETB used these individual Trust forecasts alongside an assessment of their current workforce needs to produce a forecast for their area as the basis for the LETB workforce investment plan;
- HEE’s Workforce Planning Guidance required each LETB to hold local ‘Challenge and Review’ sessions with employers and other partners such as commissioners in order to ensure effectiveness forecasts.
The workforce planning and assurance process at a national level:
HEE has three national workforce planning roles:
- to guarantee for each LETB’s workforce investment plan;
- to lead national workforce planning for a small number of areas where the current characteristics warrant a nationwide approach;
- to produce a National Workforce Plan for England based on the aggregate of the final moderated LETB plans and the conclusions of the national workforce planning processes.
As part of the processes to produce the Workforce Plan for England HEE:
- seeks continual advice and input from stakeholders through a national ‘Call for Evidence’;
- discusses emerging trends and themes with other ALBs such as NHS England, NTDA and Monitor and the Department of Health to ensure alignment wherever possible;
- seeks on-going advice from key professional groups through Health Education England Advisory Groups;
Held bilateral meetings with stakeholders to discuss key emerging issues.
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