Workforce planning

We provide the strategic leadership for pharmacy in Wales in developing workforce intelligence and planning activity which enables workforce transformation.

We are working to:

• ensure the commissioning of pharmacy education and development meets the ambitions of Pharmacy: Delivering a Healthier Wales and the strategic objective of HEIW
• improve the quality and completeness of multi-sector pharmacy workforce data (including leading on the development of definitions job roles and standardising terminology)
• ensure there is appropriate development of planning skills in the pharmacy workforce across all areas of practice
• provide analytical insight and intelligence which supports the development of the current and future shape of the workforce
• optimise pharmacy visibility in Health Board and Primary Care Cluster planning processes with a clear narrative aligned to ‘Pharmacy Delivering a Healthier Wales’ and Wales Health and Social Care Workforce Strategy.

Pharmacy related resources you may like:

1. We recommend pharmacy professionals with responsibility for workforce planning explore the Workforce Planning Hub.  The Workforce Planning Hub has been developed to help you find resources, guides, information and training to help support you with workforce planning activities
2. Consultant pharmacist resource - A resource for senior leaders to improve their understanding  of how consultant pharmacist roles improve population outcomes and how roles can be created.
3. Consultant pharmacist practice - Tools to help pharmacists self-assess if they are ready for consultant pharmacist credentialing and to link with the Credentialing Community of Practice.
4. Read the report for the 2019 community pharmacy workforce survey to access the first national quantitative data on the number and skills mix of the community pharmacy workforce.
5. Job planning guidance for NHS (coming soon)
6. Request access to the data analytics pharmacy dashboard - NHS staff only - (coming soon)
7. NHS HEIW Critical Care Workforce Model
8. Primary care compendium
9. Perinatal multi-disciplinary team resource (coming soon)
10. Cancer care multi-disciplinary team resource (coming soon)