title: The importance of workforce planning in the NHS in the 1990s.
abstract: Considers a variety of pressures, both internal and external to the National Health Service, which in recent years have ostensibly increased the importance of sound workforce planning initiatives. These include, among others: skill shortage; the drive towards cost-efficiency and effectiveness; an altered philosophy of care through technology; the develop of competence-based training initiatives; nationwide demographic changes; and the need to develop identifiable skill shortages. Presents reprofiling (skills alignment with organizational needs) and skill mix and distribution as useful approaches to workforce planning and concludes with a brief consideration of implications for planners of professional boundaries and changed educational priorities for health service personnel.
authors.affiliation: Quadra Consulting, London, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gill
mesh_terms: D006285:Health Planning; D006280:Health Workforce; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D011361:Professional Competence; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom