Dietetic Staffing and Workforce Capacity Planning in Primary Health Care

Adaptive Planning of Staffing Levels in Health Care Organisations

This paper presents a new technique to adaptively measure the current performance levels of a health system and based on these decide on optimal resource allocation strategies. Here we address the specific problem of staff scheduling in real-time in order to improve patient satisfaction by dynamically predicting and controlling waiting times by adjusting staffing levels. We consider the cost of...

Skills mix: future health policy and workforce planning in primary care.

The Department of Health strategy document, Primary Care: A New Direction, proposed primary care as the “team-based approach to service provision which will help to build capacity in primary care and contribute to sustainable health and social development” 1 . This strategy envisioned the establishment of a network of primary care centres staffed with GPs, nurses, physiotherapists, and soci...

Policy Brief : Capacity planning in health care

Strategic Health Workforce Planning

Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, yet wages for healthcare workers already account for over half of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasinglyimportant to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinitelinear programming methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforceplanning in...

Using staffing ratios for workforce planning: evidence on nine allied health professions

BACKGROUND Modern healthcare managers are faced with pressure to deliver effective, efficient services within the context of fixed budget constraints. Managers are required to make decisions regarding the skill mix of the workforce particularly when staffing new services. One measure used to identify numbers and mix of staff in healthcare settings is workforce ratio. The aim of this study was t...