Day 1

Registration and refreshments

Chair’s opening remarks

QIPP and Strategic Workforce Planning

• Maximising resource and capacity through strategic
  workforce planning
• Ensuring SHAs, commissioners and providers deliver joined
   up workforce plans to effectively meet the needs of local
   communities
• Developing innovative workforce plans that are based on
  clinical input built around patient and care pathways
• Ensuring human resource teams and workforce
  professionals contribute to the quality and patient safety
  agenda

Workforce planning in difficult economic conditions

• Workforce planning to deliver quality care while reducing
costs and achieving efficiencies
• Evaluating the options to provide CPD within limited
budgets
• Examining strategies to maintain and boost productivity in
the NHS workforce
• Rethinking workforce plans: Understanding how to develop
more flexible roles and multi disciplinary teams
• Consulting the key stakeholders in the change process and
effectively communicating change to staff

Leadership development

• Understanding what is meant by talent management in
the NHS: Focusing on the top leaders, or developing and
retaining managers?
• How do you spot talent? What should you be looking for?
• Planning for the future by setting incentives for talent
management and commissioning leadership development
programmes
• Driving savings and efficiencies through robust talent
management and succession planning

Question and answer session

Morning refreshments

Investing in bands 1-4 to release the capacity of the healthcare workforce and improve patient experience

• Releasing the potential of staff on bands 1-4 to improve
productivity of the entire healthcare workforce
• Supporting and training lower band staff to embrace the
values of dignity and respect to promote a better patient
experience
• Widening participation: Improving your local heath
economy by employing locally and working with local
colleges and job centres
• Maximising the benefits of apprenticeships for your
organisation and your workforce

Implementing lean thinking through your organisation

• Utilising lean thinking as a key tool to deliver culture
change and service improvement
• Implementing the leadership skills necessary throughout
organisations to implement lean processes
• Engaging clinicians: Understanding the challenges to drive
change and improvement

Question and answer session

Lunch

Identifying and promoting talent and leadership in the NHS to support productivity and quality

Developing excellence in workforce planning at the provider level

• Exploring the role of the SHA in delivering an integrated
workforce development plan
• Ensuring effective training, leadership development
and talent management plans are aligned and in place
regionally
• Understanding how workforce collaboratives bring together
key stakeholders to support training and workforce
planning in your region

Question and answer session

• Delivering patient centred and clinically driven workforce
plans through effective engagement with patients and
clinical staff
• Developing organisational workforce plans which are
integrated and centred on care pathways
• Understanding what skills you need to meet local demand:
Delivering competency based planning and meeting the
NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF)
• Identifying opportunities to widen participation of the
workforce and recruit locally, embracing the principles of
equality and diversity
• Engaging staff to ensure the organisation is fit for purpose
and a world class provider

Afternoon refreshments

• Understanding the needs of your health economy and the
appropriate workforce requirements
• Forecasting demand for services and planning
appropriately
• Commissioning education to address skills gaps and
improve competencies as well as develop the lower bands
of the workforce
• Understanding and incorporating the information available
from workforce plans, workforce intelligence centres and
risk assessments into your commissioning cycle

Understanding the role of the Centre for Workforce Intelligence to support strategy and planning and maximise the investment in your workforce

Question and answer session

Chair’s closing remarks and end of day

• Identifying the support and information available from the
Centre and its partners
• Understanding the role of Health Innovation and Education
Clusters (HIECs) to improve the quality of education and
training for health professionals and bring research and
innovation directly to patients
• Using information intelligently to align workforce, activity
and financial plans to maximise