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Workforce Development is about getting the
right people with the right skills to be in the right places
at the right time. It is crucial to securing the workforce
for NHSScotland in the short, medium and long-term. It is
integral to the successful reform of health services in Scotland
and to the improvement of patient care.
A central part of the workforce development agenda is better
workforce planning, at local, national and regional levels,
but the agenda is not simply numbers-driven, in a rapidly
changing health service, it has to be more expansive and dynamic
than that. Workforce development interacts with service planning
and redesign, linking with the future shape of services, employment
markets and the changing supply and demand.
It looks at all staff groups in an integrated way, and also
takes account of:
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