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Strategic nursing workforce plan

We are developing a strategic workforce plan to recruit, retrain, train and transform the nursing workforce in Wales by providing recommendations to action to meet the current and future demand.

"Our Consultation Nursing in Wales" is now closed. A big thank you to everyone who took the time to participate and supported the consultation. We have had a very good response from the nursing community with 238 direct responses to the feedback form and 119 booking for our webinars. We also had some individual and organisation responses via email.

Strong, Missing or Wrong?

Initial analysis shows that the workforce supports the proposed action with a high percentage of “Strong” responses.

 
Emerging themes from thematic analysis
Work-Life Balance: The importance of achieving a good balance between work and personal life.
Inclusivity: The importance of ensuring the culture, social and protected characteristic needs of the workforce are met and respected.
Digital Systems and Infrastructure: The need for digital systems that are intuitive, and supportive of high-quality patient care. It covers the need for digital systems to be interoperable and the impact of disjointed and difficult-to-use systems on clinical care.
Recognition and Value: The importance of recognising and valuing the work of nurses. It includes discussions about the need for recognition beyond pay, such as through career development opportunities and positive feedback.
Restorative Supervision: This theme involves discussions about restorative supervision, and how it differs from clinical supervision, and how it can be effectively implemented and protected in practice.
 
Next Steps

We won’t be stopping here, we are now conducting detailed thematic analysis of the feedback and considering key stake holder opinion which will allow for evidence-based refinement of the actions within the plan. As soon as the actions have been refined, they will go through our strict internal governance process prior to publishing. Once approved we can then move on to a prioritised implementation that will drive effective and efficient implementation. Our webpage is currently being updated, going forward this will be regularly updated with our progress.

Thank you for being an integral part of this important initiative.

HEIW’s Nursing Transformation Team

 
Plan Phases

The plan has been split into three phases.

 

    Contact

    If you have any queries about the Nursing Workforce Plan, please contact our team via heiw.nursingworkforceplan@wales.nhs.uk.

     

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