Planning and Developing Primary Care: Planning and Development-K

Primary Care Trust WorkforcePlanning and Development\nAuthor(s): Keith Hurst\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9781861564870, 978-1861564870\nSynopsis\nEven though primary and community care managers face the same challenges as their hospital counterparts theyve never had an equivalent range of methods for evaluating workforce size and mix. So this book aims to set the record straight by explaining community demand and supply side workforce planning and development. Eight chapters set out the main variables, from dependency and workload, activity and performance, staff education, recruitment and retention, before the most recent data are synthesised into a set of software-supported algorithms that managers can easily adopt. The book and software enable readers to not only compare their organisations with those in the same socio-economic group but also against best-practice staffing and performance. B.