Intro -- Primary Care Trust Workforce Planning and Development -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction, background and context -- Workforce planning and development definitions -- Driving and restraining forces -- Workforce planning and development method issues -- The book's aim, objectives and methods -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Community patient dependency and workload -- Introduction and background -- Dependency measures -- Dependency and workload -- Health needs assessment and community profiling -- Demographic data -- Age groups and sex -- Acute and chronic illness and disability -- Patients' homes -- Care home issues -- Children and child care issues -- Morbidity and mortality data -- Lifestyle and related issues -- Life expectancy and death rates -- Socioeconomic and quality-of-life data -- Deprivation and demand -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Community staff activity -- Introduction and background -- First contact -- Access to primary care practitioners -- Chronic disease management and continuing care -- Primary and community care of elderly people -- Travelling time -- Public health -- Other public health workers -- Productivity -- Time out -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Staff mix -- Introduction and background -- Grade-mix and skill-mix drivers and restrainers -- Delegation and extended roles -- Clinical re-grading -- Practice nurses and nurse practitioners -- District nurses -- Community staff nurses -- Health visitors -- School nurses -- Nursery nurses -- Health-care assistants -- Paraprofessionals -- Allied health professionals -- Administrative and clerical staff -- Managers -- Multidisciplinary and integrated teams -- The Changing Workforce and Future Healthcare Workforce programmes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Efficiency and effectiveness -- Introduction and background.

Workforce planning, development and quality from a methodological perspective -- Standard-setting methods -- Document analysis -- Patient satisfaction -- Community profiles -- Clinical audit -- Critical incidents -- Workforce planning, development and quality from a professional perspective -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Education and training -- Introduction and background -- Curriculum -- Competencies -- In-service education and training -- Supervision, mentorship and appraisal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Recruitment and retention -- Introduction and background -- The greying and shrinking NHS workforce -- Vacancies -- Turnover -- Job satisfaction -- Education and training issues -- Succession planning and other solutions -- Improving Working Lives -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Determining team size and mix -- Demand-side methods -- Professional judgement -- Population and health needs-based approaches -- Caseload-based methods -- Dependency-acuity approaches -- Evaluating team size and mix -- Some algorithms -- Modernizing the PCT workforce -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Demographic data -- Commentary -- Appendix II: Socioeconomic and health needs assessment -- Commentary -- Appendix III: Staff activity and evaluating team size -- Commentary -- Appendix IV: Efficiency and effectiveness -- Commentary -- Appendix V: Recruitment and retention -- Commentary -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.

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