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List of References on WORKFORCE PLANNING
Abrams, Michael N, Employee Retention Strategies: Lessons from the Best, Healthcare Executive, Vol. 19(4) July/August 2004 pp. 18-22 ACT Health, Workforce Plan 2005 – 2010: Building a Sustainable Health Workforce for the People of ACT, November 2005 http://www.health.act.gov.au/c/health?a=sendfile& ft=p&fid=1149050010&sid Aiken, Linda H, Buchan, James, Sochalski, Julie, Nichols, Barbara, and Mary Powell, Trends In International Nurse Migration, Health Affairs 23, no. 3 (May/June 2004): 69-77. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract /23/3/69 American Hospital Association, Health Care Workforce Site - especially the archived reports from previous years http://www.aha.org/aha/key_issues/workforce/inde x.html Audit Commission (UK) Hidden Talents: Education, Training and Development for Healthcare Staff in NHS Trusts, London, Audit Commission, 2001 http://www.auditcommission.gov.uk/reports/NATIONALREPORT.asp?CategoryID=&ProdID=EEF804162C96-44d4-AFF14FC8C382F95A&SectionID=toc# Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, National Aged Care Workforce Strategy, Canberra, March 2005 (This is an informed reliable framework for long-term structural reforms of the aged care workforce.) http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing .nsf/content/ageing-workforce-nacws.htm Australian Government Productivity Commission, Australia’s Health Workforce: Research Report, 2006 http://www.pc.gov.au/study/healthworkforce/index. html Australian Health Ministers’ Conference, National Health Workforce Strategic Framework, April 2004 http://www.healthworkforce.health.nsw.gov.au/am wac/pdf/NHW_stratfwork_AHMC_2004.pdf Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Medical Labour Force 2004, National health labour force series no. 38), December 2006 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title /10379 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Nursing and Midwifery Labour Force 2004, National health labour force series no. 37), December 2006 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title /10380 Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee, (AMWAC) was established in 1995 to assist with the development of a more strategic focus on medical workforce planning in Australia and advise on national medical workforce matters, including workforce supply, distribution and future requirements. The prime focus of AMWAC’s work is Australian medical workforce research and data analysis. AMWAC reports are available at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/amwac/amwac/repo rts.html Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee (2004), Sustainable Specialist Services: A Compendium of Requirements – 2004 Update, AMWAC Report 2004.4, Sydney http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/amwac/pdf/sustss_ 20044.pdf Begun, James W and others, Opportunities for Improving Patient Care through Lateral Integration: the Clinical Nurse Leader, Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 51(1) 2006 pp. 19-25 (The improvement of patient care and prevention of errors requires collaboration among professionals occurs at the patient care delivery level, not just within the leadership team.)
Berwick, BM, Improvement, Trust and the Health Care Workforce, Quality and Safety in Health Care, Vol. 12 (Suppl 1) pp. i2-i6 http://www.qualityhealthcare.org/NR/rdonlyres/D3 56BFDC-F9FF-4581-83B859AC21846235/0/BerwickImpTrustHlth.pdf Best, Richard G, Hysong, Sylvia J, Pugh, Jacqueline A, Ghosg, Suvro and Moore, Frank I, Task Overlap Among Primary Care Team Members: An Opportunity for System Redesign? Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 51(5) September/October 2006 pp. 295-307 (The management of healthcare personnel can be improved through systematic analysis of the work, the worker and work organisation and through more informed decisions about the appropriateness of task assignment.) Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Staffing for Safety: A Synthesis of the Evidence on Nurse Staffing and Patient Safety, September 2006 http://www.fcrss.ca/research_themes/pdf/staffing_ for_safety_policy_synth_e.pdf Collins, Sandra K and Collins, Kevin S, Valuable Human Capital: The Aging Health Care Worker Health Care Manager. Vol. 25(3) July/September 2006 pp. 213-220, Creegan, Reta, Duffield, Christine and Forrester, Kim, Casualisation of the Nursing Workforce in Australia: Driving Forces and Implications, Australian Health Review, Vol. 26(1) 2003 pp. 201208 De Ruyter, Workplace Change and the Internal Labour Market: Evidence from the NSW Hospital Industry, Australian Health Review, Vol. 25(4) 2002 pp. 99-106 Doiron, Denise, Hall, Jane and Jones, Glenn, Trends in the Nursing Workforce in New South Wales, CHERE Research Report no. 23, December 2005 http://www.chere.uts.edu.au/pdf/rep23.pdf Drennan, Vari and others, Developing the Health and Social Care Workforce, British Journal of Health Care Management, Vol. 9(11) November 2003 pp. 372-375 (Developing the workforce in health and social care services for older people and considers the relevant perceptions and transferable learning.) Duckett, Stephen J, Health Workforce Design for the 21st Century, Australian Health Review, Vol. 29(2) 2005 pp. 201-210 Duckett, Stephen J, Interventions to Facilitate Health Workforce Restructure, Australia and
New Zealand Health Policy 2005, Vol. 2 29 2005 pp. 14 http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/pdf/17438462-2-14.pdf Duffield, Christine and O’Brien-Pallas, Linda, The Nursing Workforce in Canada and Australia: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Australian Health Review, Vol. 25(2) 2002 pp. 136-144 European Observatory on Health Systems and Politics, The Health Care Workforce in Europe: Learning from Experience, WHO, 2006 http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E89156.pdf Gebbie, Kristine, Merrill, Jacqueline and Tilson, Hugh H, The Public Health Workforce, Health Affairs, Vol. 21(6) November/December 2002 pp. 57-67 (The task of ensuring that this workforce is prepared with skills and knowledge to face both identified and emerging public health challenges is immense.) Gebbie, Kristine M and Turnock, Bernard J, The Public Health Workforce, 2006: New Challenges, Health Affairs, Vol. 25(4) July/August 2006 pp. 923-933 (Policy recommendations for assessing the public health workforce and its needs, essential competencies for public health practice, credentialing workers and accrediting agencies.) Harris, Mary, Gavel, Paul and Conn, Warwick, Planning Australia’s Hospital Workforce, Australian Health Review, Vol. 25(5) 2002 pp. 6177 Health Workforce Advisory Committee, Fifth Annual Report to the Minister of Health, Wellington, Ministry of Health, 2005 http://www.hwac.govt.nz/publications/annualreports/hwac-annual-report-2005.pdf Health Workforce Australia This website provides information on health workforce planning in Australia; the Australian health workforce and the activities of the various national health workforce advisory committees that report to the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) and Australian Health Ministers. http://www.healthworkforce.health.nsw.gov.au/ Health Workforce Solutions LLC, Workers Who Care: A Graphical Profile of the Frontline Health and Health Care Workforce, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 2006 (It includes information about the (US) occupational growth outlook for this fast-growing and diverse group of professionals and paraprofessionals, together with per-capita employment,
demographic information and wage outlook and trends.) http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/workers _who_care.pdf?c=EMC-ADV Hospitals of the European Union, The Healthcare Workforce in Europe: Problems and Solutions, May 2004 http://www.hope.be/07publi/07newpublics/HOPE %20HEALTHCARE%20WORKFORCE%20FINAL %20REPORT.pdf Huselid, Mark A, Beatty, Richard W and Becker, Brian E, “A Players” or “A Positions”? The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 83(12) December 2005 pp. 110, 112-117 (A better approach is to identify strategically critical jobs, then to invest disproportionately to ensure that the right people – doing the right things – are in those positions.) Inman, Robert R, Blumenfeld, Dennis E and Ko, Arthur, Cross-Training Hospital Nurses to Reduce Staffing Costs, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 30(2) April-June 2005 pp.116-125 Kings Fund Centre, Grow Your Own: Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Workforce Development, by Gita Malhotra, August 2006, http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/resources/publication s/grow_your_own.html Korda, Rosemary J and others, The Health of the Australian Workforce: 1998 – 2001, Australian (Describes the health of the Australian workforce in relation to occupational status.) Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol. 26(4) August 2002 pp. 325-331 Loretto, Wendy, Vickerstaff, Sarah and White, Phil, Older Workers and Options for Flexible Work, Equal Opportunities Commission (UK), 2005 http://www.eoc.org.uk/PDF/WP31_Older_workers _full_report.pdf Masys, Daniel R, Effects of Current and Future Information Technologies on the Health Care Workforce, Health Affairs, Vol. 21(5) 2002 pp. 33-41 (The growth of biomedical knowledge and of computer-based information access and knowledge management tools will expand the types of jobs in the health care workforce and provide new business opportunities for support industries.) May, Jessica H, Bazzoli, Gloria J., and Gerland, Anneliese M, Hospitals’ Responses To Nurse Staffing Shortages, Health Affairs 25 (2006): w316-w323 (published online 26 June 2006). http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/25/4/W3 16
May, Ellen Lanser, Are People Your Priority? How to Engage Your Workforce. Healthcare Executive, Vol. 19(4) July/August 2004 pp. 8-10, 12-16 McKinstry, Brian H, Colthart, Iain, Eliott, Katy and Hunter, Colin M, The Feminisation of the Medical Work Force, Implications for Scottish Primary Care: A Survey of Scottish General Practitioners, BMC Health Services Research Vol. 6 2006, 56 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/6/56 McNair, Stephen and Flynn, Matt, Managing an Ageing Workforce in Health and Aged Care: A Report for Employers, UK Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, 2006 http://www.agepositive.gov.uk/complogos/Man_A ge_HealthSoc_v5.pdf Moody, Roseanne C, Nurse Productivity Measures for the 21st Century, Health Care Management Review, Vol. 29(2) April-June 2004 pp. 98-106 National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care (USA), Act Now: For Your Tomorrow: Final Report, April 2005. http://www.ahca.org/research/workforce_rpt_0505 19.pdf NHS Employers, Improving Services for People with Long-Term Conditions through Largescale Workforce Change, 2006 http://www.nhsemployers.org/restricted/download s/download.asp?ref=1113&hash=9c3b1830513cc 3b8fc4b76635d32e692 NZ Ministry of Health, Strategic Principles for Workforce Development in New Zealand, December 2005 http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/199ed83545fe92 13cc25710f007c3e32/3354cf7d73ba3bbdcc25717 500805e3d?OpenDocument Pruitt, Sheri D and Epping-Jordan, JoAnne E, Preparing the 21st Century Global Healthcare Workforce, British Medical Journal, Vol. 330(7492) March 19, 2005 pp. 637-639
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Richardson, Sue and Martin, Bill, The Care of Older Australians: A Picture of the Residential Aged Care Workforce, Adelaide, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University, February 2004 http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing .nsf/content/ageing-workforceworkforcerep.htm/$file/nilsrepfinal.pdf
Rondeau, Kent V and Wagar, Terry H, Implementing CQI While Reducing the Work Force: How Does it Influence Hospital Performance, Healthcare Management Forum. Vol. 17(2) Summer 2004 pp. 22-29 Salsberg, Edward, Making Sense of the System: How States can use Health Workforce Policies to Increase Access and Improve Quality of Care, September 2003 Millbank Memorial Quarterly and the reforming states Group, http://www.milbank.org/reports/2003salsberg/2003 salsberg.html Seago, Jean Ann and others, The Nursing Shortage: Is it really About Image? Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 51(2) March/April 2006 pp. 96-110 Simoens, Steven; Villeneuve, Mike and Hurst, Jeremy, Tackling Nurse Shortages in OECD Countries, OECD Health Working Papers. No.19. 2005 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/10/34571365.pd f Smith, David Barton and Aaronson, William, The Perils of Healthcare Workforce Forecasting: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 48(2) March/April 2003 pp. 99-111 (In 1996 it was predicted that over the next five years there would be a decline in hospital and healthcare employment in this Area. Confounding these predictions, hospital and healthcare employment actually grew.) Thomas, Janet and Davies, Christopher, The Nursing Shortage and the Scope for Reducing it by Redefining Their Role, Health Services Management Research, Vol. 18(4) November 2005 pp. 217-222 Tourigny, Louise and Pulich, Marcia, Improving Retention of Older Employees Through Training and Development, Health Care Manager, Vol. 25(1) January/March 2006 pp. 4352 Trerise, Barbara and Lemieux-Charles, Louise, An Assessment of the Introduction of a Multiskilled (Services Assistant) Worker into an Acute Care Setting, Healthcare Management Forum, Vol. 9(3) 1996 pp. 43-48 UK Department of Health, Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan: The Workforce Contribution, November 2004 http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/09/38/96/0409 3896.pdf UK Department of Health, A Health Service of all the Talents: Developing the NHS Workforce
Consultation Document on the Review of Workforce Planning, April 2000 http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/08/02/58/0408 0258.pdf UK Department of Health, Mental Health Services – Workforce Design and Development. Report on the NIMHE National Workforce Planning Pilot Program, May 2006. http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/13/65/72/0413 6572.pdf UK Department of Health, The Recruitment and Retention of Staff in Critical Care, June 2004 (Case studies on how staff working in critical care units/hospitals have tried to overcome the problems facing the workforce.) http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/08/35/68/0408 3568.pdf (UK) Healthcare Commission, Acute Hospital Portfolio Review: Ward Staffing, June 2005 http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/assetRo ot/04/01/81/24/04018124.pdf UK NHS Scotland, National Workforce Planning Framework 2005: Summary, 2005 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/57346/ 0017060.pdf UK NHS Scotland, Framework for Role Development in the Allied Health Professionals, Scottish Executive Health Department, June 2005 (This document provides a framework and outlines the key principles identified by the 9 Allied Professions for the development of roles.) http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/55971/ 0015377.pdf WA Department of Health, Workplace Aggressive Behaviour and Bullying Discussion Paper, March 2003 http://www.health.wa.gov.au/publications/docume nts/small.pdf Wearne, Susan M and Wakerman, John, Training Our Future Rural Medical Workforce, Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 180(3) 2 February 2004 pp. 101-102 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/180_03_020 204/wea10841_fm-2.html World Health Organization, Health Care Workforce in Europe: Learning from Experience, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2006 http://www.euro.who.int/document/E89156.pdf World Health Organization, The World Health Report – Working Together, 2006 (Contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals
to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately.) http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html
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