Workload and workforce planning: supplementary staffing.
This article describes how an over-reliance on agency staff in the NHS in Scotland has been addressed by the creation of unified, board-wide nurse banks; the development of a national nurse agency contract; and the use of tools devised by the Nursing and Midwifery Workload and Workforce Planning programme.
Simpson
Jacqui
J
Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
Barkby
Irene
I
Lockhart
Karen
K
D006282:Health Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012606:Scotland; D013222:State Medicine; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*