Workforce Baseline – Stockport Together
Cross Economy
Stockport Together is an integration project covering health & social care across the Stockport area. The project includes the redesign of clinical pathways and workforce across four areas:
1. Prevention
2. Proactive Care
3. Urgent Care
4. Planned Care
It is a complex programme, including the acute and community services of Stockport Foundation NHS Trust, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, Stockport CCG, Pennine Care and all Stockport GPs.
The Challenge
- WRaPT have been asked to develop a workforce baseline for the entire programme. This will be the first time that the details for workforce in all the organisations mentioned above, will be held in one place. This will allow the teams to conduct their redesign against a clear understanding of the whole affected workforce, and the activity that they manage across the year
Our Approach
The team also engaged with ten teams across the economy, identifying the sources of activity information available, and understanding how the workforce relates to the activity.
All of this activity will result in a clear baseline of workforce and its links with activity. Once complete, the tool will be used to model changes in workforce in real time in a series of redesign workshops. The WRaPT team will then be producing a detailed output of baseline and future expectations.
The Outcome
The WRaPT team have agreed the following outcomes with the programme:
- Redesign will be carried out with a clear understanding of current workforce – which will ensure that the teams can identify ease of implementation
- Teams will be able to model the impacts of changes on all aspects of workforce
- A clear picture of all staff involved in a pathway should enable some redesign of roles as well as redesign of pathway
“ Stockport CCG is committed to be an intelligence-led organisation. The WRaPT tool allows us to apply the same rigour we use in quality assurance and contracting to our workforce planning so that our new models of care are backed up by the right skills and capacity within our collective workforce across health and social care in Stockport.”
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