title: Workload and workforce planning: devolving the programme.
abstract: This article describes how implementing the Nursing and Midwifery Workload and Workforce Planning programme has been devolved from central government to individual NHS boards, and how its implementation has helped to ensure that senior nursing staff have become aware of their accountability for workload and workforce planning.
authors.affiliation: Nursing and Midwifery Workload and Workforce Planning programme, Scottish Government, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lockhart
authors.forename: Jacqui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Mairi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kellagher
authors.forename: Betty
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Flynn
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D008880:Midwifery / Q000592:standards; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012606:Scotland; D013222:State Medicine; D016526:Workload