Workforce Redesign – Better Care Together
Cross Economy
The WRaPT team are supporting Better Care Together with their transformation of health and social care services across North Lancashire and South Cumbria. The programme involves eleven partner organisations across North Lancashire and South Cumbria including North Lancashire Medical Services and South Cumbria Primary Care Collaborative.
All partner organisations are committed to delivering a “population” based approach to promoting wellbeing and providing care in which people and their needs are the focus rather than processes and buildings.
The Challenge
Five clinical pathways have been identified for service and workforce redesign using WRaPT:
- Planned Care (MSK, Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Radiology)
- Out of Hospital (South Cumbria)
- Out of Hospital (North Lancashire
- Women and Children
- In Hospital
Our Approach
The team are working alongside the Better Care Together Service Pathway Transformation Leads to identify the relevant activity delivered by the identified workforce which will enable effective scenario modelling within WRaPT when matched to driver data.
This is being achieved through engagement with representatives from partner organisations including professional and clinical leads, service managers, HR, Finance, and Workforce & OD leads.
The Outcome
The collaborative work includes the transfer of knowledge on the approach of data collection, data input into the WRaPT tool and scenario modelling within the tool. This will enable the Better Care Together workforce transformation team to utilise WRaPT for workforce planning within the three remaining pathways.
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